
This week's Life Group Questions
- Conversation starter: what was the key insight you gained from Sunday’s sermon?
- In Luke chapter two, we are introduced to three different eyewitness experiences surrounding the birth of Jesus:
- The shepherds. These men, who did not belong, were the first ones to hear the news about Jesus and to meet Him. Outsiders became insiders, finding their belonging in Jesus.
- How do you relate to the experience of the shepherds?
- What does it mean to you that you have found your belonging in Jesus?
- Simeon. He trusted in God’s promises as the solid basis for his hope: when God says something will happen, it will happen! Because of Jesus, our hope turns into reality
- God is a promise-keeper (Psalm 145:13). How have you experienced this to be true?
- Which of God’s promises are you still eagerly waiting for to be fulfilled?
- Anna: Despite a tragic loss early on in her life, she chose a life of devotion to God over a life of bitterness. Waiting is not wasting when you know that your Redeemer has come.
- In God’s presence there is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore (Psalm 16:11). How have you noticed the reality of this in the past few weeks?
- What have been times in your life where you have experienced Jesus’ redemption while you were waiting on God?
- Close your time together in prayer. Suggested prayer points:
- Lift up your praises and give thanks to God for giving us Jesus.
- Ask God to:
- Restore hope to those in your group who feel hopeless.
- Reveal His redemptive power to those in your group who are waiting or suffering.
- Draw you deeper into His presence during this Christmas season.