Christ Community Olathe
The Great Banquet - 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) What stood out to you from the text or the sermon?
2) Wealth, work, and relationships are all good gifts from God, but when they take the ultimate place in our lives they can cause us to be too preoccupied and miss the Kingdom of God. Which of the three is the greatest temptation in your life?
3) It is possible to go on “spiritual autopilot,” no longer paying much attention to what Jesus is saying, doing or how He is calling us to follow Him. What are some indications that this has happened in our lives? How can we guard against this?
4) Read Luke 14:21. When we consider others, what do we think qualifies them to be a guest at Jesus’ great banquet? Jesus says “the poor and crippled and blind and lame” are to be invited. Are we willing to welcome the people that our culture considers outcasts to have a seat with us, next to us, at the very same table?
5) Do you know someone, or have you ever been someone who felt so broken they needed to be compelled to come to Jesus' table? How can we gently compel others to feast on the forgiveness and goodness of God?
Luke 12:13-20 ESV
Title: The Great Banquet
Scripture: Luke 14:15-24
Speaker: Ben Laur, BenL@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Jesus' feast is for anyone who shows up.
>> The preoccupied will be excluded.
>> The poor will be included.