Christ Community Brookside
The One Who Makes Everything Sad Untrue - 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?
2) Read together Revelation 1:1-20. John’s three central descriptions of Jesus in Revelation 1 are - the firstborn from the dead, the Faithful Witness, and the ruler of the kings on earth. Which of these three descriptions most impacts you? Why?
3) At the end of Revelation 1, Jesus tells John, “Do not fear…” What about Revelation 1 addresses your fears? What in Revelation 1 helps you to believe that Jesus can conquer those fears?
4) How do you think Revelation 1 uniquely addresses our current day - of COVID19, impending election, the unrest in our streets? How might you use Revelation 1 to describe the hope of Jesus to someone who does not believe in Christ?
Prayer
• Have each person in your group name one thing/area in their life where they want to see the reality of God more clearly.
• After each person shares, pray one of those 3 descriptions of Jesus over what they voiced (i.e., Firstborn from the Dead, Faithful Witness, the Ruler of the Kings on earth).
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV
Title: The One Who Makes Everything Sad Untrue
Scripture: Revelation 1
Speaker: Taylor Fair, TaylorF@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Jesus is the One who Perseveres...so cling to Him.
>> Jesus is the One who conquers...so align with Him.
>> Jesus is the One who comes...so watch for Him.
>> Jesus is the One who makes everything sad untrue...so hope in Him.
“Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
"A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.”