CONVERSATION STARTERS
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource. 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 moment and think about a time when you felt lonely or alone. Take a few minutes for group members to share - as the leader, kick off the sharing!

2. Read John 14:15-31 silently or aloud.

3. What are some of the descriptions/purposes of the Holy Spirit (the King’s Counselor) in this passage?

4. When have you felt that Jesus is near and real? When have you struggled to feel or believe his nearness?

5. What do we learn about Jesus in this passage?

6. What does this passage say about what it means for believers to follow Jesus as king?

7. How does this passage encourage and/or challenge you?

PRAYER PROMPT
Pray for the Holy Spirit to be present in the room and to fill each of you. Pray for belief that Jesus is near even when we may not feel it.

Title: The King’s Counselor
Scripture: John 14:15-31
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> Where is God?

> God wants to make his home in us.

“If I had understood as I do now that in this little palace of my soul dwelt so great a King, I would not have left Him alone so often. . . . But what a marvelous thing, that He who would fill a thousand worlds and many more with His grandeur would enclose Himself in something so small! . . . Since He is Lord He is free to do what He wants, and since He loves us He adapts Himself to our size.” - Teresa of Avila

> But do you really want that?

> God lives in those who love Jesus.

> God lives in those who love Jesus.

> When you love Jesus, the Spirit confronts lies from the inside out.

> "To think about God a thousand times, without experiencing God, is to know nothing." ~Gregory Palamas, Eastern Orthodox Theologian

> Let God make you more beautiful.