Sermon Discussion Questions | Garden Ridge Church

Love God;Love People; Follow Jesus--Lesson 2--Seeing Persons as Jesus Does

Discussion Questions:

1. How often do you find yourself having eyes that look rather than eyes that see? What

difference does this make for your daily living?

2. How many persons do you think gather for worship with conditions or situations hindering

their ability to grow in the LORD? What can you do to notice the hindrances persons face?

3. What kind of situations move you to treat persons as “its” rather than persons? What

would help you see persons more clearly?

4. How does it help you when others see potential in you, rather than gauging things

according to your past? How can you do this for others?

5. What does it mean to you that love is emphasized twice, and things are done for the glory

of God when Jesus waits for Lazarus to die? How does this apply to the unpleasant

situations in your life and what God might be doing with it?

Discussion Questions:

1. How have you seen things get out of balance in your walk with God?

2. What kinds of things help you maintain God as your 1st love?

3. How can one be intolerant of things while still being loving?

4. When is a church not a church? Do you see any areas where the church family at Garden

Ridge needs to remember their 1st love and repent?

5. How would the story of Martha and Mary be different if Jesus was invited into Martha’s

frustration? Why do we so often focus on what frustrates us instead of what brings

balance?

Discussion Questions:

1. How have you seen success cause a movement to become stagnate? How have you seen

failure cause a movement to stagnate? Why are both of these a danger?

2. God teaches Abram to see past his current circumstances to what He has planned for his

future. He offers promises and a picture of what He has planned for him. How has God

provided the same thing for us?

3. Why is Jesus able to speak “Peace” to a room full of those who have failed Him in many

ways? What does He do to show them they legitimately have reason to feel peace? How

does this assure you in the roles He calls you to play for His Kingdom?

4. Why do you think Jesus breathes on the disciples to give them the Holy Spirit? How does

this help you to see that God’s ways will prevail even through your failures and successes?

5. Describe why it is important for a leader to be connected to the past, dependent upon God

in the present, and looking forward to the future.