The Beautiful Upset: WK 1 - GROUP GUIDE
The Confession We Don’t Understand
INTRODUCTION
The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.
OPENING QUESTION
When did you first begin to believe that Jesus truly is your Lord? Was it at your baptism? Before then? After then? Not sure yet?
HEAD
HEART
HANDS
This week, we invite you to pray and think about 2-3 people in your sphere of influence that you may have the opportunity to invite to join a Crosswalk campus for worship this Easter, April 4. Also, take some time to really think through who you say Jesus is, and right out your answer. Pray about it, reflect on it, come back to it often.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
29 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah.”
Mark 8:29, NLT
INTRODUCTION
The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.
OPENING QUESTION
When did you first begin to believe that Jesus truly is your Lord? Was it at your baptism? Before then? After then? Not sure yet?
HEAD
- Read Mark 8:27-38, together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading.
- Why do you think Peter was so quick to be the first one to answer almost all of Jesus’ questions? Do you think Peter knew Jesus was the Messiah, or simply hoped he was the Messiah?
- Why do you think other Jews were reluctant to think of Jesus as the Messiah?
- From what you know, what did the typical Jew in this time believe the Messiah was going to come to do?
- Why would Jesus instruct his disciples not to tell others who he is?
- Did Jesus refer to Peter as Satan, or the spirit of what he said? Explain.
HEART
- It has been said that the question, “Who do you say I am?” is the most important question ever asked. If true, why?
- What about you, who do you say that He is? How is this belief shown in how you live your life?
- Jesus told them that to follow him would involve taking up your cross. There only reference point for this at the time was thieves and rebels dying at the hand of the empire. So how do you think they processed this before Jesus’ death on the cross? What about after?
- What are some of the ways we gain the whole world but lose our soul? How do we prevent this from happening?
- Jesus wasn’t the Messiah they wanted, but he was the one that they needed. In what ways do you need the Messiah to show up in your life today and if he did, what do you think he’d have to say to you?
HANDS
This week, we invite you to pray and think about 2-3 people in your sphere of influence that you may have the opportunity to invite to join a Crosswalk campus for worship this Easter, April 4. Also, take some time to really think through who you say Jesus is, and right out your answer. Pray about it, reflect on it, come back to it often.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
29 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah.”
Mark 8:29, NLT
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