This Is The Way (Part 1): Be Changed (And Changing)

TO START

Start group tonight by sharing your favorite movie transformations. Name a character who changes in a powerful or significant way over the course of the story. Vote for your favorite answer—which character changes the most?

TO DISCUSS

We said Sunday that Christians weren’t originally called Christians, but actually were referred to as “people of The Way.” What does that phrase tell us about what being a Christian involves?

In this series we’ll be revisiting our church’s core behaviors, reminding ourselves who we are. Why do you think identifying core behaviors matters? How do core behaviors help us during times of transition?

During the sermon Sunday we camped out in Romans 12:1-2.

  • How does God’s mercy inspire us to offer ourselves up as living sacrifices? What’s the correlation between God’s mercy and our submission?

  • What is “the pattern of this world?” Who do you think the world is trying to make you? What does the world want from you?

  • God expects transformation from us. What does He want us to become?

Following Jesus means getting comfortable with change. How do you feel about change? Is change easy for you? Or do you struggle with change?

We’d love for you to spend most of your time together tonight responding to this prompt: Share one big change that God’s accomplished in you since your baptism.

How is God transforming you right now? Do you feel like God’s at work in you today? What’s He up to?

TO READ

Read I Corinthians 15:51-54

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

  • As people of the way, change is our destiny. What kind of change will we experience at Jesus’ return? What will we be like?

TO PRAY

This week we announced that during the period between Justin leaving and the hire of our next minister, we’ve asked Tim Curtis to joining us as interim preaching minister. Would you pray for Tim and his wife Sandy? Pray that God would work through Tim, that he and Sandy would feel welcomed and appreciated, and that Tim would have the wisdom to give us just the preaching we most need during this time.

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