Oct 13, 2019
“Sit Down to Bear Fruit”
By: Jordan Moody
Luke 10:38-42, John 15
HOPE SMALL GROUP QUESTIONS
Q1: Do you feel or believe that the anxiety and mental health issues are more prevalent in today's society than it was in the past? Explain why or why not.
Q2: What do you think are the main issues and cause of our anxiety and our worry? (outside of medical issues) What was Martha's main issue?
Q3: Is Mary "all right" and Martha "all wrong"? Or is it deeper than that? Explain. Look at how Jesus responds to Martha...
Q4: What does it mean to abide? How could abiding in the vine actually help remedy our anxiety and our "Martha" mentality of doing or performing? (John 15)
Q5: Discuss John 15:2. What does it look like to be pruned? Why might this not actually feel like a means to bear more fruit? Have you experienced this? How could Martha Prune back herself in order to bear more fruit?
Extra: Why is the title "Sit Down to Bear Fruit"? What does this mean to you?
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- Oct 13, 2019“Sit Down to Bear Fruit”
Oct 13, 2019“Sit Down to Bear Fruit”By: Jordan MoodyLuke 10:38-42, John 15HOPE SMALL GROUP QUESTIONSQ1: Do you feel or believe that the anxiety and mental health issues are more prevalent in today's society than it was in the past? Explain why or why not.Q2: What do you think are the main issues and cause of our anxiety and our worry? (outside of medical issues) What was Martha's main issue?Q3: Is Mary "all right" and Martha "all wrong"? Or is it deeper than that? Explain. Look at how Jesus responds to Martha...Q4: What does it mean to abide? How could abiding in the vine actually help remedy our anxiety and our "Martha" mentality of doing or performing? (John 15)Q5: Discuss John 15:2. What does it look like to be pruned? Why might this not actually feel like a means to bear more fruit? Have you experienced this? How could Martha Prune back herself in order to bear more fruit?Extra: Why is the title "Sit Down to Bear Fruit"? What does this mean to you?
- Oct 6, 2019“Like a Good Neighbor”
Oct 6, 2019“Like a Good Neighbor”By: Jordan MoodyLuke 10:21-37Hope Small Group QuestionsQ1: What do you think "Loving your neighbor as yourself" means?Q2: What is then motive of the lawyer asking the questions? Review the conversation he has with Jesus.Q3: Why do you think Jesus uses a story/parable to answer the lawyer questions? (See Luke 8:9-10 and Luke 10:21)Q4: What does the story of the Good Samaritan expose in the hearts of the questioner? What's Jesus intent in telling the story?Q5: Talk about how we tend to only moralize the story of the Good Samaritan? Talk about what Jesus' endgame is with telling this story and in asking the questions he does at the end?Q6: How do we try to justify our self-righteousness apart from Christ? How do other religions do this? (Luke 10:29)
- Sep 29, 2019“Kingdom Come or Kingdom Go”
Sep 29, 2019“Kingdom Come or Kingdom Go”By: Jordan MoodyScripture Passages: Luke 9:51-10:24, Isaiah 52:3-17Hope Small Group QuestionsQ1: Do you commit today to be open, honest, andloving with one another in your group? What does thismean to you and why would this be important for truecommunity to exist in your groupQ2: What is the kingdom of God? Why would it beimportant we understand the kingdom of God?Q3: Why could it be challenging for us today in ourmodern society to grasp the concept of a “kingdom”and someone ruling and reigning like Jesus proclaims tous?Q4: Examine the three rejected disciples who did notfollow Jesus in Luke 9:57-62. What were their excusesand what can we learn from these scenarios in our ownlives?Q5: Read Luke 9:2. What does it mean for your group?Q6: Now pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest tosend out laborers into his harvest. – Luke 9:2
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Sep 15, 2019“Holy Spirit, I don’t get it?”By: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the ChurchActs 1:8, Matt. 28:19-20
- Sep 8, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part III
Sep 8, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part IIIBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the ChurchGenesis 1:26-27
- Sep 1, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part II
Sep 1, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part IIBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the Church1Cor. 6:12-20
- Aug 25, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part I
Aug 25, 2019“Sexuality: Why so Confusing?” Part IBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the Church1 Corinthians 6:9-11
- Aug 18, 2019“Marriage: What’s the Point?” Part 2
Aug 18, 2019“Marriage: What’s the Point?” Part 2By: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the Church1 Corinthians 7, Ephesians 5, 1 Peter 3
- Aug 11, 2019“Marriage: What’s the Point?” Part 1
- Aug 4, 2019“The Church: Is It Worth It? Part II
Aug 4, 2019“The Church: Is It Worth It? Part IIBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the ChurchScripture passages: Matt 16:18, 1 Pet. 2:1-10, Acts 2:42
- Jul 28, 2019“The Church: Is It Worth It?” Part I
Jul 28, 2019“The Church: Is It Worth It?” Part IBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the ChurchActs 20:14-38
- Jul 21, 2019“The Bible Can It Be Trusted?” Part II
Jul 21, 2019“The Bible Can It Be Trusted?” Part IIBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the ChurchPsalm 119: 1-88
- Jul 14, 2019“The Bible, Can It Be Trusted?” Part I
Jul 14, 2019“The Bible, Can It Be Trusted?” Part IBy: Jordan MoodySeries: The Elephant in the Church2 Timothy 3:16-17
- Jun 30, 2019“Finding Spiritual Life by Following Jesus”
Jun 30, 2019“Finding Spiritual Life by Following Jesus”By: Jordan MoodyLuke 9:21-51Hope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. To aid our memory, rehash some major points, illustrations and applications of the sermon. How did God speak to you?2. Should we listen to Jesus? Why or why not? What evidence and reason do we have to follow him?3. How do you think Luke 9 can be a capstone and climax to our study through the gospel of Luke so far? What do we learn about Jesus, his identity, mission and power, that compels us to follow him from this chapter?4. In what ways do you think Jesus' statements in Luke 9:23-25 are so "counter-cultural" today?5. Discuss the paradoxes of Christianity and following Jesus by comparing Luke 9:23-27 and 9:57-62. What is Jesus teaching us?6. What do you think picking up a cross and following Jesus means for you today?
- Jun 23, 2019“Send it. Who’s it? Eat it!”
Jun 23, 2019“Send it. Who’s it? Eat it!”By: Jordan MoodyLuke 9:1-20Hope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. Discuss spiritual hunger. What is it like to be hungry for God? What does it feel like to you?2. Compare and contrast the feeding of the 5,000 in Luke 9 with the feeding of Israel in Exodus 16.3. What was the response of the people in John 6 to Jesus Bread of Life message (John 6:41-43;52). Why?4. What was the result/response of Jesus' preaching and message after the miracle of feeding the 5,000 in John 6:60-66? More disciples and bigger crowds or less? Who was left? Why?5. Discuss Simon Peter's response to Jesus' preaching and questioning in John 6:67-69 and Luke 9:18-20. What is your response to Jesus as the bread of life?
- Jun 9, 2019“Jesus Brings Change”
Jun 9, 2019“Jesus Brings Change”By: Jordan MoodyLuke 8:22-56Hope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. Talk through each major encounter with Jesus in Luke 8:22-56. How does Jesus bring security, stability, sanctity and salvation through relationship?2. Can you resonate and relate with the disciples in Luke 8:22-25? How So? (or any of the characters given in the chapter?)3. How does much of Luke 8 and 9 build up to the confession in Luke 9:20? What is Luke doing in showing us this progression? What are you forced as the reader to do when reading through Luke and finally arriving at chapter 9 verse 20?4. Discuss the presence of faith and/or the lack of faith in each major encounter here with Jesus? Especially as each encounter with Jesus asks us, in direct and indirect way, the question, "Where is your faith?" (8:25)5. Pray together for God increase our faith in his power and ability to bring change into our broken and seemingly impossible situations. Pray for faith to overcome and pray for faith to endure whatever he has for us to face.
- Jun 2, 2019“Some Do, Some Don’t”
Jun 2, 2019“Some Do, Some Don’t”By: Jordan MoodyHope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. Talk through the parables given in this chapter of Luke. Which part of the parables most stuck out to you? (parable of soils/sower, soils explained, lamp and jar, story of Jesus' mother and brothers)2. Today we must be careful of allowing the culture of constant arena entertainment to infect our hearts at church. While also remembering the culture of a church is more a posture of your heart than is is a style, genre, or denomination. How can you create an atmosphere of being a true hearer and a true doer of the Word here at HFC, rather than just simply wanting to be entertained by an experience.3. What is a parable? Why would Jesus speak using parables and not just "say it as it is?"4. What are the details and elements of good soil? Luke 8:155. Who does the work, God or man? Both? 1 Cor. 3:6-8.
- May 26, 2019“Does the Bible Value Women?”
May 26, 2019“Does the Bible Value Women?”By: Jordan MoodyHope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. To aid our memory, rehash some major points, illustrations, and applications of the sermon. How did God speak to you?2. How would you describe the cultural environment for men and woman today? How is it different than the past, positive or negative? (Extra credit: How could John 3:3 be an answer for the culture?)3. What do you notice as significant and what can we learn from this account in John 20:11-18?4. Discuss this quote in relation to the roles of men and women. Do you agree or disagree? "God's oneness is not sameness... It is unity in difference, not uniformity" - Sam Allberry.5. What role does the church play in valuing men and women equally for their differences?
- May 19, 2019“Much Love or Love Much?”
May 19, 2019“Much Love or Love Much?”By: Jordan MoodyHope Small Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. What is grace? What does it look like? What does it not look like?2. What is Jesus talking about in Luke 7:33-35? Unpack these verses as a group.3. How are those verses (7:33-35) illustrated and woven into the story given to us by Luke in 7:36-50?4. Discuss the tension and the atmosphere of this situation described to us in Luke 7:36-50. Can you feel the emotion? Is this helpful for us to feel what is going on?5. Read Ephesians 2:4-10 as a group. How does this passage relate to the story in Luke and to your life?
- May 12, 2019“What is Faith?”
May 12, 2019“What is Faith?”By: Jordan MoodyHope Group Sermon Discussion Questions1. In what ways did you operate on faith today? Give examples. You had faith that...2. What is Faith? Is faith different from blind faith? (John 20:30-31, Heb. 11:1)3. What is humility? How is humility related to faith and can faith not exist without humility?4. Look up the two times Jesus was amazed: Luke 7:9 and Mark 6:6. What can we learn from these two passages?5. Consider Jesus' compassion. Notice the tenderness of the passage in Luke 7:13-15. Point out each detail of Jesus' tender compassion for the mother and widow. What does this teach us?