Questions for week April 10th - 16th

Christian Atheist
Part 2
I Believe in God, but I'm Skeptical of His Will for My Life



1) Just for fun: Pastor Mark talked about the time when there were only three different choices of Ice Cream Flavors: Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

2) Read Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 14:27, Proverbs 22:4 and Psalms 36:1-2.

• What’s your gut definition of fearing God? How does the word fear make you feel about God?

3) The fear of the Lord is an ongoing attitude of our heart that moves us to choose over and over again to obey God when it’s easier to do something else. The greatest evidence of the fear of God is complete obedience to God.

• Share a story of a time when your fear of the Lord led to a wise decision, a fuller life, success, honor, or health.

4) Read John 8:4-11. Place yourself in this scene.  

• What would be the emotions of the woman as she is “caught in the act” of adultery?  
• What would you be thinking as part of the crowd gathered around Jesus when this scene unfolds?  
• What is the emotional element gripping the woman’s accusers?

5)  These religious leaders were trying to trap Jesus. If he answered, "stone her,” he would be in trouble with Roman Law which forbade local governments to impose the death penalty without their permission. But if Jesus answered, "let her go," he would be going against the Mosaic Law that called for the death of an adulterer.

"But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. . ."

• Where do you think the crowd’s attention has been focused while all this was going on? In other words, who do you think people are staring at?
• The Bible never tells us what Jesus wrote on the ground. What do you think He could have been writing?
• What can we learn from Jesus about helping someone who has fallen?
• Share a time when you experienced undeserved grace. How did it impact your life?

6) When it comes to the word of God, we have to obey all of it, not just the parts we like. Is this something you have struggled to overcome in your life? How are you dealing with this now? 

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