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. Take a few moments and list some of your motives in your daily work (in or out of the home)? Where are the areas you have authority or oversee people (subordinates, baby-sitters, repairmen, etc.)?

2. Take a look back at Ephesians 5:20-21. What is Paul encouraging the Ephesians to do? How does this apply to his instructions to both the servant and the master? How does this apply to us today in our work?

3. The husband and wife, the parent and child, the master and servant, were all relationships in Paul’s time that had clearly defined superiors and subordinates. Imagine you were a slave or master in the first century. How would you react to hearing this (vs. 8-9)? How can we apply this to our own lives to grow in Christ-likeness?

4. What directions does Paul give to masters specifically? What responsibilities do leaders have?

PRAYER PROMPT:
Pray for the work the Lord has given to each of us. Pray for the people above us and the people we are over as well. Pray to become more like Christ through our work.

Title: Bondservants of Christ
Scripture: Ephesians 6:5-9
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> Every Christian is a slave to Christ.

> Three massive implications:
-elevates
-eliminates
-equalizes

> Leverage your power to serve Christ’s ends Christ’s way.