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. Have you experienced followers of Jesus acting as though ‘his kingdom is of this world’?

2. Read John 18:28-19:22 silently or out loud.

3. How does Jesus’ kingdom differ from the kingdoms of this world?

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

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

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

PRAYER PROMPT
Pray for our church and believers around the world to faithfully bear witness to the kingdom of Jesus and not the kingdom of this world.

Title: The King’s Kingdom
Scripture: John 18:28-19:22
Speaker: Nathan Miller, NathanM@cckc.church

> Who will you let rule you?

> I rule me (as long as I can have control)

"Refusing to allow his behavior to be dictated by an external law, he supposedly strives to leave behind the mental slavery that used to bind human existence to the past, to the community or to a transcendent figure (God, the Church, Royalty). … However attractive it may be, this hope was never confirmed. … he atones for the permission to be his own master by enduring a constant state of fragility. … Being released from any obligation and being guided only by the lantern of his own understanding, the individual loses all assurance of a place, an order, a definition. He may have gained freedom but he has lost security, he has entered the era of perpetual torment." - Pascal Bruckner, The Temptation of Innocence

> They rule me (as long as I’m comfortable)

> Let sacrificial love rule you (surrender to the Crucified King)