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Week 5

Text: Luke 23:39-43

Topic: Repentance, Witnessing

Main Idea: It is never too late to seek repentance, and it is never the wrong time to share the gospel.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What does the Bible mean with the word repentance?
3. Why do you sometimes find it hard to share the gospel?
4. Sometimes witnessing is sharing your testimony of how you personally became born again. Often this kind of witnessing is followed immediately by repentance from someone listening who realizes they need to become a Christian themselves. Does anyone want to share how you came to faith in Jesus?
5. Does anyone here need to accept Jesus as Savior for the first time?

Week 4

Text: Luke 17:11-19

Topic: Thankfulness, Blessing, Prosperity

Main Idea: The greatest blessing of following Christ is the relationship we get to have with God, rather than the gifts He gives us.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What is one thing you are thankful for today?
3. Why do you think the other healed men didn’t come back? Why is it significant that the one man who was thankful was also a Samaritan?
4. Have you ever experienced God answering a prayer of yours or blessing you in some way that you knew it had to be God? What happened?
5. When is it the hardest for you to be thankful? Is there anything in your life right now that is a hindrance to your genuine gratitude?
6. Why is it tempting to believe our relationship with God is all about our prosperity?

Week 3

Text: Luke 7:36-50

Topic: Service, Testimony

Main Idea: As this narrative illustrates, Jesus not only wants a relationship with the “outcasts,” but He wants to use them to change the world.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What do you think this woman felt like when she showed up at this home full of religious leaders and Jesus’ disciples? What was at risk?
3. What do you think of Jesus’ words in verse 47?
4. What may be your “alabaster jar” that you can give to Jesus as a sign of devotion to Him? Have you already done so?
5. Have you ever found yourself acting like the men in this story? Have you ever judged someone else’s extravagant worship? What is the remedy?

Week 2

Text: Luke 19:1-10

Topic: Mercy, Compassion

Main Idea: As the story of Zacchaeus illustrates, Jesus loves even the people we view as “unlovable.”

Discussion Questions:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. Who would be deemed by our culture as unlovable or an outcast?
3. Why was Jesus’ pursuit of Zacchaeus such a surprise/offense to everyone?
4. How did Zacchaeus act out his change of heart? How have you experienced and demonstrated transformation because of your relationship with Jesus?
5. Is there anyone in your life you might have labeled “unlovable”? How can you show them God’s love?

Week 1

Text: Luke 15:1-31

Topic: Love, Grace

Main Idea: After hearing the religious leaders grumble about His attitude toward sinners, Jesus tells three parables that illustrate God’s extravagant love for the lost. This text teaches us that it doesn’t matter what we’ve done or how undeserving we feel; God is actively pursuing us to come back to Him.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. How did Jesus’ attitude differ from the religious leaders’?
3. What characteristics of God’s heart are being revealed here?
4. Have you ever experienced God’s pursuing you? How did He do it?
5. How did you go from being “lost” to being “found”? In other words, how did you become a Christian?