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: Reid Kapple, ReidK@cckc.church

> Why work toward justice when it feels so futile?

> Why justice feels futile

> Why justice is vital.

> Why justice is possible.

“We can’t work for justice without some acknowledgement of universal moral values. The modern and postmodern dissolution of moral norms has not brought the liberation and peace we have sought. So we need universal values, but we also need something that undermines the natural, powerful human inclination to dominate others.”
-Tim Keller (Making Sense of God)

“It is only in Jesus that we see how radically and literally God identified with the poor and oppressed. He was born to a poor family; he lived among the marginalized and outcast. His trial was a miscarriage of justice. He died violently, naked and penniless. And so the Son of God himself knew what it was like to be a victim of injustice, to stand up to a corrupt system and be killed by it.”
-Tim Keller (Making Sense of God)