Revelation 21:1-8 New Year 2020 A Fresh Start (Special Services)
1. What are you committed to do/change/improve in 2020?
1. What are you committed to do/change/improve in 2020?
1. In what ways have disorganized people sucked the life out of you?
2. How has learning the law of sowing and reaping improved your quality of life?
3. What are your highest life priorities? Who or what pulls you away from those?
4. Is there someone else’s business that you need to butt out of?
5. How are you creating beauty?
1. Have you ever lost hope in your life? What helped?
2. What are some of the ways in which you see the Holy Spirit holding back evil today?
3. Why do Christians seem so prone to imitate the world?
4. Why do so many people choose to reject God and follow the path to death?
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1. Why would persecuted people derive comfort from knowing about heaven and hell?
2. In what ways do you see the glory of God’s power in your life and in this world?
3. What do you wonder about concerning heaven? Concerning hell?
4. How does 2 Thessalonians 1 motivate you to share the gospel?
1. What is your greatest Thanksgiving memory?
2. What kinds of things are hard for you to be thankful for?
3. What positive role has music played in your life?
4. How has flexibility helped you in your life?
1. How could Job make such strong statements of faith?
2. What happened the last time your faith was seriously tested?
3. What would you have said or done to help Job?
4. What favorite saying in your family (e.g., “Time heals all wounds”) is quoted to those who hit bottom and need a pick-me-up?
5. When have you been helped by the counsel of friends? What about their friendship meant the most?
1. Who are the church leaders who have had a major impact on your life?
2. Who, other than the church staff members, have encouraged you?
3. What have you done in the church that made you feel like you were really making a difference to someone?
4. Who was the best storyteller you’ve ever known?
5. Who helped you keep moving when you were ready to give up? What did they say or do that helped?
1. What do you think makes people so interested in future predictions?
2. Why do so many people walk around in a fog, instead of being alert and aware?
3. Of faith, hope and love, which is the hardest for you?
4. What are you doing to try to encourage and build up others?
1. What is the hardest loss you’ve ever had to deal with in your life?
2. When you’ve mourned a loss you experienced, who or what helped?
3. What are some of the dumb things people have said to you in trying to comfort you?
4. How would you describe what comfort feels like?
1. What led you to your understanding of your personal worth as a child, both good and bad?
2. Why do we try to shame people and throw stones at them when they sin? How is that counterproductive?
3. What noise do you need to calm down in your life?
4. Have you ever had an experience where your lack of significance was liberating?