Christ Community Brookside
The Friend at Midnight - 9:00 & ON-DEMAND
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) Recalling the break-in story we heard in the sermon, was there a time when someone audaciously asked you to do something, and what was your reaction?
2) What does shameless prayer look like, and how do you think God feels about these kinds of requests?
3) Recounting all that God has done can help us to pray more expectantly. Do you have a favorite moment in Scripture or your own life where God powerfully answered bold prayers?
4) Do you tend to hesitate to ask God for the big things or for the small things? What is one big or small thing in your life that the group can pray about?
Luke 11:5-13 ESV
Title: The Friend at Midnight
Scripture: Luke 11:5-13
Speaker: Taylor Fair, TaylorF@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Your Father loves to be asked
- Ask simply
- Ask expectantly
- Ask for God’s presence
"Simple Prayer involves ordinary people bringing ordinary concerns to a loving and compassionate Father...we do not pretend to be more holy, more pure, or more saintly than we actually are. We do not try to conceal our conflicting and contradictory motives from God—or ourselves. And in this posture we pour out our heart to the God who is greater than our heart and who knows all things." - Richard Foster
"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon." - George MacDonald