Community Group Conversation Starters
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource. 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 Romans 8:5-11.

2. What stood out to you from the passage?

3. What stood out to you from the sermon?

4. What sorts of things do those living in the flesh have their minds set upon? What about those living in the Spirit? What are some ways you’ve experienced a mindset of the flesh leading to death and/or a mindset of the Spirit leading to peace and life? What can you do to continuously pursue a mindset of the Spirit in your everyday life?

5. How will you apply this to your life? What are you going to do, be or think differently because of this truth?

Take time to share prayer requests and pray together.

Title: Alive Inside
Reference: Romans 8:5-11
Speaker: Brooks Neese, BrooksN@cckc.church

"A desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing."
- Paul David Tripp

"The point is that the present body is heading for death because it has been the locus of idolatry and injustice, missing the mark of genuine humanness, the word for this being, sin. We have all taken part in that, colluding with the anti-creational forces of death.”
- N.T. Wright

“Fasting is a way to turn your body into an ally in your fight with the flesh rather than an adversary…fasting trains our bodies to not get what they want and our souls to be happy and at peace even when we don’t get our way.” - John Mark Comer

“Security without responsibility breeds passivity, but responsibility without security leads to anxiety” - Douglas Moo

“I don’t think we give that gift anymore (the gift of silence). I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder. In noise, rather than silence…how do we encourage reflection? Oh my, this is a noisy world. I get up every morning at least by 5AM. I have a couple hours of quiet time, reflect about what is important. What can we do, to encourage people to have more quiet in their lives, more silence? Real revelation comes through silence.” - Mr Rodgers