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. Read Psalm 2 out loud. What stands out to you from this psalm? If you are participating in the Formed.life, what are some of the things that stood out to you in your study of the psalm this past week?

2. How does this psalm contrast God’s kingship with human rulers and authorities?

3. Read Luke 1:46-55 and 2:1-7. How do these passages pick up on the themes of Psalm 2?

4. How do these passages give you hope this Advent season?

PRAYER PROMPT:
Praise Jesus for giving himself up for the church - for us. Pray for the humility and love to give ourselves back to Christ in joyful service.

Title: The Promised King
Scripture: Psalm 2
Speaker: Caleb Jenkins, CalebJ@cckc.church

> A Conspiracy

> God’s Response

> Truth: We don’t need to fear what God laughs at

“I used to think that wrath was unworthy of God. Isn’t God love? Shouldn’t divine love be beyond wrath? God is love, and God loves every person and every creature. That’s exactly why God is wrathful against some of them. My last resistance to the idea of God’s wrath was a casualty of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the region from which I come. According to some estimates, 200,000 people were killed and over 3,000,000 were displaced. My villages and cities were destroyed, my people shelled day in and day out, some of them brutalized beyond imagination, and I could not imagine God not being angry… How did God react to the carnage? By doting on the perpetrators in a grandparently fashion? By refusing to condemn the bloodbath but instead affirming the perpetrators’ basic goodness? Wasn’t God fiercely angry with them? Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God’s wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn’t wrathful at the sight of the world’s evil. God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.”
- Miroslav Volf

> God’s Decree

> God’s Invitation
- Take refuge in him.

> Where are you looking to something for refuge that won’t protect you?