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. Read Psalm 2 out loud. What stands out to you from this psalm? If you are participating in the Formed.life, what are some of the things that stood out to you in your study of the psalm this past week?

2. How does this psalm contrast God’s kingship with human rulers and authorities?

3. Read Luke 1:46-55 and 2:1-7. How do these passages pick up on the themes of Psalm 2?

4. How do these passages give you hope this Advent season?

PRAYER PROMPT:
Praise Jesus for giving himself up for the church - for us. Pray for the humility and love to give ourselves back to Christ in joyful service.

Title: The King’s Fruit
Scripture: John 12:20-36
Speaker: Tom Nelson, TomN@cckc.church

> What does discipleship with Jesus look like?

> A lifestyle of self-sacrifice

“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

> A lifestyle of wholehearted obedience

“Non-discipleship costs abiding peace; a life penetrated throughout by love, faith that sees everything in the light of God, overriding governance for good, hopefulness that stands firm in the most discouraging of circumstances, power to do what is right . . . . in short, non-discipleship costs you exactly the abundance of life Jesus said he came to bring”
- Dallas Willard, The Great Omission

> A lifestyle of relational intimacy

> Are we walking with the Light?
1) Am I ordering my loves rightly?
2) Am I holding things loosely?
3) Am I pursuing fellowship regularly?