Each week, we provide questions based on the sermon. These questions are to encourage you to connect the scriptures to your own life and to invite you to grow deeper in your relationships with others at Faith by discussing the questions together.
Readings: ISAIAH 11:1-10, MATTHEW 3:1-12
Sermon: We want our enemies destroyed. Christ destroys our greatest enemy: the sin in our heart, so that we can make friends of our foes.
Questions:
1) If you were to describe yourself as an animal, which would it be? How would it change your self-understanding to describe yourself as two different animals at the same time?
2) "Red meat" is a term in politics used to describe inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that rallies a voter base. When have you prefered devouring "red meat" to grazing on nuanced conversations in the civic sphere? When have you hungered for red meat in your personal relationships?
3) With whom are you in conflict now? What power, or control, or judgement would that person need to turn over to Christ for you to have peace with them? What power, or control, or judgement would you need to turn over to Christ to make peace with that person?
2) "Red meat" is a term in politics used to describe inflammatory and divisive rhetoric that rallies a voter base. When have you prefered devouring "red meat" to grazing on nuanced conversations in the civic sphere? When have you hungered for red meat in your personal relationships?
3) With whom are you in conflict now? What power, or control, or judgement would that person need to turn over to Christ for you to have peace with them? What power, or control, or judgement would you need to turn over to Christ to make peace with that person?
