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TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS

View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion.

Application / Challenge

Pastor Doug asked us to reflect on these questions:

• How have you seen God work restoratively in your life? In what specific ways?
• The enemies of God taunted God and His people. As a believer, how have you experienced the world’s taunting?
• Do you understand that sin is, first and foremost, a heart issue?
• Do you treat your sin as if it is a behavior to correct, or a heart issue to repent of?
• Do you often struggle with the same sin over and over again?
• Do you realize that you do not have to be a slave to that sin?
• Have you confessed and repented of that sin? Have you asked God to strengthen you in the face of this temptation.
• Have you contemplated that Jesus died so that you could be made righteous? Have you thanked God for that recently?
• In what areas do you struggle to trust God? Can you confess that to Him right now?
• In what ways have you seen leaders steer people away from God?
• Are you stewarding the responsibility to point people to Jesus with your life and your words?
• Chesterton once said, “If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride.” In what ways have you seen your pride make its presence known?

TAKE ONE STEP

Each week, write down one doable concrete step of obedience, small or large, that you will put into practice this week. (James 1:22: “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.”)

COMMUNITY GROUP LEADER’S GUIDE

Community group leaders, use this version of Talking Points / Walking Points.