Transformed--Lesson 8--It Takes a Village

Discussion Questions:

1. How has having community in your life brought blessings and more fullness to your daily

living? How has community provided support, a sense of value, security and more?

2. What trouble do you have connecting with people to form community? What helps or

hinders this?

3. You may not have saved Christmas, but how has the LORD used you to help others

understand their identity in the LORD, or how have you been there for someone who feels

like they are being destroyed by things around them?

4. How have you seen God use unknown people with no fanfare to accomplish things they

wouldn’t have dreamed of accomplishing? How has He used you in this way?

5. Why do you suppose Joash turned on what Jehoiada did for him and killed his son? How

does baggage from dysfunction find a way to return if we don’t stay focused and diligent?

Transformed--Lesson 7--Here I Am

Discussion Questions:

1. In what ways have you been hands and/or feet for Jesus? Why does Jesus entrust us with

this?

2. How has somebodies’ poor representation of Jesus frustrated you or hindered your faith

development? In what ways has Jesus asked you to represent Him?

3. Jesus emphasizes urgency and priority as He sends out the 70. What kinds of things work

against maintaining urgency and keeping focus on His ways?

4. Why is it important that Jesus uses infants instead of the wise and intelligent? How would

you describe your dependence upon God?

5. How do you show victory in your life? How does living in victory show you are being

transformed by Jesus?

Transformed--Lesson 6--Ears that Hear

Discussion Questions:

1. Why would it be more important for the demons to keep things out your of your mind rather

than putting things into it?

2. How amazed are you that the God of the universe wants to speak to us? What happens

when we lose our sense of amazement or awe?

3. How did proximity to the presence of God play an important role in the story of Eli and

Samuel at the tabernacle? What kind of battle do you have with desiring to have your own

place versus camping out in the presence of God?

4. Are there some things we could be doing that would cause “the word of God to be rare

and visions infrequent”? What kinds of things hinder His speaking or our ability to listen?

5. How have you seen God produce flowers in the strangest places in this world and/or in

your own personal life? What does Samuel show you about the difference one person can

make, even in a time of darkness, when they have their ears transformed to hear God?