Foreshadow--Lesson 2--The Presence Offered

Discussion Questions:

1. How have you seen the fire and breath of God make a difference in your life? Who is

benefitting from what God is doing in your life?

2. What do you learn from the fact that God gave and then inhabited the Tabernacle after

these same Israelites made a golden calf and worshiped it? How does God’s desire to be

present in your life overcome whatever you have done?

3. Are there times you have treated God like an unused umbrella? Why do we often only

think of His presence during storms?

4. What surprises you about the way God removes His presence from Israel in the book of

Ezekiel? How does Jesus reversing these steps provide security and hope?

5. Would you describe your life as full of the presence of God? How about when we gather

together for worship? How do you see the presence of God in our midst?

Foreshadow--Lesson 1--The Call on Our Lives

Discussion Questions:

1. In what ways would you describe your relationship with God as His “treasured possession”?

How does this influence the way you live out your days?

2. How is giving part of worship? Describe how your voluntary giving is a response to what

God has first done for you.

3. What message does it send that God can take things of this world and things from Egypt

and use them for the construction of the Tabernacle? How does He do the same thing

with our lives?

4. What difference does it make that God gave Moses plans for a tent instead of a palace?

How did He do the same thing with the plan for Jesus?

5. How does the name of God (which is spoken over us in the Priestly blessing in Numbers

6:24-27) provide a destiny for our lives?

Respond--Lesson 8--A Process of Growth

Discussion Questions:

1. How does faith in God increase the dimensions of your life? Describe how faith in the

LORD has increased freedom and power in your life.

2. How have you seen faith be more of a process than a moment of decision in your life? Is

this encouraging or discouraging to you? Why?

3. What does it matter that Peter’s understanding of Jesus was not a straight-line graph?

How does seeing this in Peter set you free in your own struggles, failures, and doubts?

4. What kinds of things help you to maintain a teachable spirit? What works against this?

5. How has this sermon series on responding to God helped you be more aware of your

response to what God has done to invite you into life with Him?