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.

In Ecclesiastes 9:2-12, the Teacher continues to wrestle with the realities of death. In this portion of Scripture, he questions if justice is worth anything, since it lies within the shadow of death.

1. What stood out to you from Sunday’s sermon?

2. “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is a question that we ask in our culture. How would you respond to that question?

3. How does the gospel of Jesus Christ and the promise of eternal life give us hope and joy in the midst of the unfairness, injustice, and brokenness in our world?

4. What is our role as gospel people in addressing the injustices and brokenness in our world?

PRAYER PROMPT
Thank God for sending us a savior, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and put an end to all the injustice in our world. Pray that God would remind you that there is a reason to do good and live for Him in our broken world despite injustice. Pray that God would remind you that Jesus is going to return and make right everything that is wrong with our world.

Title: Justice Up in Smoke
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 9:2-12
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> Why even work toward justice when it feels pointless?

#1 Our justice work can have harmful unintended consequences.

#2 Our justice work can lead to conflict even among allies.

#3 Our justice work won’t eradicate the ultimate reign of death.

> Why even work toward justice when it feels pointless?

> One day the Ultimate Judge will make His point.

> Don’t turn away from just work.

> One day the judge will make his final point.