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CONVERSATION STARTERS
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource to you. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.
1. What challenged you this week in your practice of theFormed.life?
2. When Jesus enters Jerusalem as the true King, He does two things: weep, and cleanse the temple. Why do you think those are the first two things He does? What does that say about the kind of King He is?
3. Jesus knows that eventually Jerusalem will reject Him as their Messiah, even as they praise Him in His triumphal entry. What do you think changed? What made the Jewish people so disappointed in Jesus as their Messiah?
4. Reflect and share specific ways that Jesus has shown Himself to be a faithful and good King in your life recently.
Luke 19:28-48 ESV
Title: Enter Jesus
Scripture: Luke 19:28-48
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> What kind of king do you want?
>> Do we want a king who’s lofty or king who’s lowly?
>> How are we using power?
>> A King who wars or a King who weeps?
>> A King who coddles or a King who confronts?
>> Where have we lost the mission?
Christians are indistinguishable from other people either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of their own, or speak a strange dialect, or follow some outlandish way of life….
And yet there is something extraordinary about their lives. They live in their own countries as though they were only passing through. They play their full role as citizens, but labor under all the disabilities of aliens. Any country can be their homeland, but for them their homeland, wherever it may be, is a foreign country. Like others, they marry and have children, but they do not expose them. They share their meals, but not their wives.
They live in the flesh, but they are not governed by the desires of the flesh. They pass their days upon earth, but they are citizens of heaven.
Obedient to the laws, they yet live on a level that transcends the law. Christians love all people, but all people persecute them.
- Letter to Diognetus
Holy Spirit, I am open to you.
Show me what kings I’m actually following. Give me the courage to abandon them before it is too late.
What is one step of obedience I can take to declare Jesus is king? Amen.