Christ Community Downtown
Suffering Witnesses - 10am & 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) Optional parallel reading for group discussion: Luke 17:20-25
2) What stood out to you from the sermon?
3) We heard in the sermon that our world operates from ‘willful blindness.’ Where do you see this most expressed?
4) There are 3 reasons to keep telling the truth: compassion, calling, and conquering. Which of these stood out to you most and why?
5) Do you struggle to tell the truth (e.g. witness on behalf of the gospel)? If so, what do you find difficult? What are ways that our group can encourage each other to grow in our faithful witness to Jesus?
Prayer:
• After you have spent time talking through Conversation Starters, pray together as the Spirit prompts you about your discussion.
Revelation 8:6-13 ESV
Revelation 9:1-21 ESV
Revelation 10:1-11 ESV
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV
Title: Suffering Witnesses
Scripture: Revelation 8:6-11:19
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@ChristCommunityKC.org
“It is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States, as well as all other inhabitants thereof, to give the earliest information to Congress or any other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds or misdemeanors committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states, which may come to their knowledge...”
“It is both difficult and dangerous to tell the truth.” - Eugene Peterson
>> We tell the truth even when it hurts. And it will.
>> Our world naturally operates from willful blindness.
>> When we see sadness, we speak truth.
>> 3 Reasons to Keep Witnessing:
1. Compassion
2. Calling
3. Conquer
“the local church is the last bastion of free speech.” - Dallas Willard
Hades will be able stop the forward motion of the church. “God will allow evil only to the degree that it brings about the very opposite of what it intends.” ― Timothy Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering