Christ Community Downtown
Life Up in Smoke - June 5 | Downtown
Fear God - 9 & 10:45 AM & ON-DEMAND
Locations & Times
Christ Community - Downtown Campus
208 W 19th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Saturday 11:00 PM
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http://linktr.ee/cckcCONVERSATION 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 12:9-14, a single summary is given for all that has been shared in the book: though the world offers many attempts at wise living, one can only find it in fearing God and keeping His commandments.
1. What stood out to you from Sunday’s sermon?
2. Read Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 aloud and then read the same passage in The Message version. Does The Message version illuminate any part of the text in a new way to you?
3. Since there are so many excellent books, podcasts, blogs etc. around living the Christian life available, to what extent do you lean on these resources vs. the Bible (vs. 11, 12)? How do we find balance here?
4. Share about a time when life events brought disappointment or pain, but you felt God’s care in the midst of the ‘smoke’, even when you couldn’t see or understand why it was happening.
PRAYER PROMPT
Ask the Lord to help us cherish the gift of wisdom He has provided in Ecclesiastes and write it on our hearts and minds. Ask the Lord to help us through His Holy Spirit to fear Him and keep His commandments in all our activity and affections.
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 12:9-14, a single summary is given for all that has been shared in the book: though the world offers many attempts at wise living, one can only find it in fearing God and keeping His commandments.
1. What stood out to you from Sunday’s sermon?
2. Read Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 aloud and then read the same passage in The Message version. Does The Message version illuminate any part of the text in a new way to you?
3. Since there are so many excellent books, podcasts, blogs etc. around living the Christian life available, to what extent do you lean on these resources vs. the Bible (vs. 11, 12)? How do we find balance here?
4. Share about a time when life events brought disappointment or pain, but you felt God’s care in the midst of the ‘smoke’, even when you couldn’t see or understand why it was happening.
PRAYER PROMPT
Ask the Lord to help us cherish the gift of wisdom He has provided in Ecclesiastes and write it on our hearts and minds. Ask the Lord to help us through His Holy Spirit to fear Him and keep His commandments in all our activity and affections.
Prayer Requests
As a staff it is a privilege to pray for our congregation. Social distance does not change that! If you are in need of prayer click the link to fill out an online prayer request.
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Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church
> We are not in control.
> What do we do when faced with a life we cannot control?
“For the nature of the living God means that the fear which pleases him is not a groveling, shrinking fear. He is no tyrant. It is an ecstasy of love and joy that senses how overwhelmingly kind and magnificent, good and true God is, and that therefore leans on him in staggered praise and faith.”
- Michael Reeves, Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord
- Michael Reeves, Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord
> Trusting God when you don’t understand, frees you to enjoy today as a gift.
> Trusting God even when you don’t understand, frees you to enjoy today as a gift.
> Danger: Looking for loopholes of control will only steal your joy.
> All roads will lead to God, but not in the way we often think.
> So what do we do when faced with a life we cannot control?
- Make the painful changes we can, today.
- Make the painful changes we can, today.
> Where do you need to surrender control to God?
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