Acts - Week 51
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Read Acts 21:17-40 together.
Review and discuss the Main Idea of the sermon
Main Idea: God often uses a painful path to give you a ministry platform
Discuss the 3 Applications
Prepare in advance for the painful path
Consider using your painful path as a ministry platform
Remember Jesus who’s painful path led to his greatest ministry
Paul’s painful path brought him many opportunities to witness to the power of Christ through him. What is a hard point in your life God has used to minister to others?
How can you deploy your misery for ministry in the future?
Consider 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
You have gone through regular intervals of depression and anxiety over the last few years of your life and you struggle to open up or use it as a ministry platform. You are still in the midst of wrestling with these feelings. How can you minister to others from a place of immediate hurt and insecurity like this?
Our church is deploying some of the Care groups Jason mentioned to minister in specific moments of crisis and need. Are there other care ministries you can identify with that you would have a passion to lead? Please explain.
(Leaders please email me if there is potentially helpful discussion here for our staff - Bryson.jackson@ubcbeavercreek.com)
Consider James 1:2-4 and 12.
What experiences in your life have tested your faith the most?
How can you further prepare yourself for future moments of hardship and grief?
Paul went through the ritual cleansing recommended by James. Why?
Consider 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
What lengths are appropriate to make the gospel accessible to those with different practices than you? What practical steps could you take to make overtures to the unsaved around you without compromising your convictions?
“I have become all things to all people that by all means I might save some,” your Christian brother/sister begins to use this phrase to justify spending time with friends from their old life. How might you respond?