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

2. How do the priorities of God’s king, expressed in this psalm, contrast with the priorities of human rulers and authorities?

3. Read Luke 1:46-55. How does Mary’s song pick up the themes of
Psalm 72?

4. In what ways does Jesus fulfill the prayer of Psalm 72?

5. How does Psalm 72 give you hope this Advent season?

PRAYER PROMPT:
Take a few moments to consider where you have influence - work, home, church, family, activities you are a part of, etc. Pray that God will help you reflect God’s priorities in the areas where you have influence.

Title: The King’s Character
Scripture: Psalm 72
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> What kind of king are we to expect?

> Our King shows up for the needy.

> Do you expect King Jesus to show up in your neediness?

“There’s two kinds of poverty. We have the poverty of material; for example, in some places like in India, Ethiopia and other places, where the people are hungry for a loaf of bread – real hunger. But there is a much deeper, much greater hunger; and that is the hunger for love, and that terrible loneliness and being unwanted, unloved – being abandoned by everybody.”
- Mother Teresa

> Our King sees the most needy as the most precious.

> Do you expect King Jesus to see you as precious?

"His yoke is kind and his burden is light. That is, his yoke is a nonyoke, and his burden is a nonburden. What helium does to a balloon, Jesus’s yoke does to his followers. We are buoyed along in life by his endless gentleness and supremely accessible lowliness. He doesn’t simply meet us at our place of need; he lives in our place of need. He never tires of sweeping us into his tender embrace. It is his very heart. It is what gets him out of bed in the morning."
- Gentle & Lowly

> Our King shows up for the needy always and everywhere.

> Jesus is our King.

#1 Praise King Jesus’ Character

“We see on the shore of time the wrecks of the Caesars, the relics of the Moguls, and the last remnants of the Ottomans. Charlemagne, Maximilian, Napoleon, how they flit like shadows before us! They were and are not; but Jesus forever is.” - Spurgeon

#2 Pursue King Jesus’ Convictions