LIFE GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS | January 14/18

 

The following questions can be used for life group meetings, further personal study, or home devotions with your family.  Use them as you wish, but please don’t feel the need to answer every one of them in order.  God bless your study/discussion!

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1. Share a time in your life when appearances were deceiving.  What did you learn from that experience?

2. Have you ever spoken to someone who believed that Jesus was an amazing person but only that—a wise and profound person/teacher.  How did you respond/react?  What would you do/say differently now?

3. Why was it necessary that God hide his glory behind the veil of human flesh in Jesus? 

4. What thoughts and feelings pass through your mind when you hear Jesus himself (through the pen of Isaiah) lamenting, “I have labored in vain. I spent my strength and came up empty, with nothing. Yet a just verdict for me rests with the Lord, and my reward is with my God” (Isaiah 49:4). [1]

5. Think of a time in your life when you felt “unimpressed” or “unmoved” by Jesus.  What led to you feeling that way?  If you could go back and speak to that version of yourself right now, what would you say?

6. When the Father speaks to Jesus in Isaiah 49, what does he mean when he says, “It is too small a thing that you should just be my servant to raise up only the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ones I have preserved in Israel”? (Isaiah 49:6).

7. Of all the examples listed in which God uses what seems ordinary and unimpressive to do amazing things, which do you find most comforting?  Why?

 

[1] Scripture is from Holy Bible: Evangelical Heritage Version (Milwaukee, WI: Northwestern Publishing House, 2019).