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. Share a time when you had to say an emotional good-bye to someone.

2. Read John 16:16-33 silently or aloud.

3. Imagine that you were one of Jesus’ disciples in this scene. What would you have been thinking or feeling? What questions would you have had for Jesus as he tells them he will be going away for a while?

4. How do you make sense of verse 23: “whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you”?

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
In verses 20-22, Jesus describes how our sorrow will be turned to joy. Think about someone you know who is experiencing sorrow now, and pray that God would step into their sorrow in such a way that it would be turned to joy.

Title: The King’s Hour
Scripture: John 16:16-33
Speaker: Tom Nelson, TomN@cckc.church

> Following Jesus means waiting.
-Waiting will be hard.

"For we are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. 'How he's grown!' we exclaim, 'How time flies!' as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the very wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed: unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal.” - C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

> Waiting will be worth it.

> How do we wait?
-We Wait For Jesus

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
-EFCA doctrinal statement

> How do we wait?
-We Wait For Jesus
-We Wait On Jesus