Christ Community Brookside
Where Change Starts - 10:00am & 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 sermon? Feel free to re-read this short parable as a refresher.
2) The sermon identified the ways contempt can easily bubble up in our lives. Definition of contempt:Treating others with disrespect and mocking them with sarcasm or condescension. Is there a person/people in your life you speak (or write or text) this way about?
3) What does this behavior reveal to you about your heart?
4) Refer to Luke 18:13-14 and the account of the tax collector. Recognizing our sin is the gateway to finding hope! Is asking forgiveness a regular part of your prayer life? Why or why not?
5) Read Romans 3:21-26. What stands out to you in this passage in light of our discussion?
Pray as a group that God would give you humility to see your own sin and confess it, and give grace to others in light of all the grace He has given to us.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV
Title: Where Change Starts
Scripture: Romans 12:1-2
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> We can change
>> Only being loved can change you
>> The Problem: Why trying harder doesn’t work
>> Information + willpower = transformation and change
>> The Hope: only being loved can change you
>> Being loved + belonging = lasting transformation and change
"In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans.
About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." - John Wesley
>> Next step: Ask for a new experience with God
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV