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. Think of a time when your authority or work was questioned or challenged. What was your initial reaction?

2. Read John 3:25-30. What clues do we get about John the Baptist’s relationship with Jesus when John’s disciples compare their ministries?

3. If we believe that God designed us with gifts and talents to use, and longs for us to grow and flourish, what does ‘He must increase, but I must decrease’ mean for us? What needs to decrease?

4. Think about your eulogy - at the end of your life would it be said that you were a disciple of Christ, or something else? If not, what needs to be reordered in your life?

PRAYER PROMPT
Pray over any areas of your lives that have increased in position, causing your focus and your commitment to Christ to take a back seat. Pray that the good things would not become ultimate things.

Title: John the Baptist
Scripture: John 3:22-36
Speaker: Tom Nelson, TomN@cckc.church

> An Inspiring And Instructive Portrait Of Humility

> Three Observations On Humility:
- Humility Grows When All Of Life Is Seen As A Grace Gift.
- Humility grows when Jesus becomes more and more.
- Humility Grows When We Become Less and Less.

"Humility is the framework within which all virtue lives."
- Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

> How is Jesus increasing in my life?

"The project of becoming like Christ is our life’s most important task."
- Rebecca Deyoung, Glittering Vices

> How am I decreasing in my life?

> How am I helping others increase?