
| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | What is your full name? How did your parents come up with it? |
| 2 |
If you currently have a nickname or have had a nickname in the past, how did
you get that name?
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| Reading: John 1:1-5 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 3 | At what point in Jesus' life does this gospel begin? |
| 4 | As you read verses 1-5, what do you learn about “the Word”? |
| 5 |
List the ways the divinity of Christ can make a difference in your life.
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| 6 |
After hearing the sermon, how do you want to live differently than you
have before? |
| Reading: John 1:9-14 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 | What kind of reception does Jesus get when he comes to “his own” today? |
| 2 | What do you think it means “to receive him”? |
| 3 |
How can the Word (Jesus) become “flesh” in your life?
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| 4 |
In what ways is the humanity of Jesus good news for you?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 |
What vegetable best describes how you’re feeling right now and why?
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| 2 |
How would you like God to respond?
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| 3 | Pray for each other. |
| Reading: John 1:14-19 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 3 |
In what ways are you just like your father?
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| 4 | How did Jesus reveal grace and truth? |
| 5 |
As people (family, co-workers, service provider, etc.) observed your life this last
week, what did they learn about God?
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| 6 |
How do you feel about being a personal
representative of Jesus?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | What is the most significant event that happened to you this week? |
| 2 |
How did it make you feel?
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| 3 | Pray for each other. |
| Reading: John 1:19-51 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
What did John the baptist mean when he exclaimed, “Look, the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world!”?
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| 2 |
How do you suppose John felt losing his disciples to Jesus?
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| 3 |
What was the difference between Jesus’ “come and see” (v 39) and philip’s “come and see” (v 46)?
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| 4 |
What does Jesus see when you are “under the fig tree?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 |
Share something memorable from a wedding you attended. (usually, this is when something went wrong)
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| 2 |
Share a time when someone told you to do something that didn’t make sense to
you until later.
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| Reading: John 2 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
Why do you suppose Jesus chose a wedding to perform his first miracle?
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| 2 |
What does that tell you about God?
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| 3 |
What are some ways you need him to turn the water into wine in your life?
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| 4 |
What are some ways you have turned the wine back into water?
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| 5 |
How do you want to live based on this miracle?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | Share what you know about the circumstances of your birth, your mom’s pregnancy, your delivery, or your adoption. |
| 2 |
What is your natural response when someone shines light into your spiritual darkness? How do you want to react?
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| 3 | What would your midnight conversation with Jesus be like? |
| Reading: John 1:19-51 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
What kind of a person was Nicodemus? In what ways are you like him?
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| 2 |
Why did Jesus use the birth metaphor to describe conversion?
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| 3 |
How would you explain John 3:16 to someone who is hearing it for the first time?
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| 4 |
Have you been born of water and the Spirit? if you would like to be, please email
the pastor (nelson@pmchurch.org).
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | When you were growing up, who were the people you were told not to associate with? |
| 2 |
Tell of a time when you had pre-judged someone incorrectly.
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| Reading: John 3:1-36 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
Do you ever avoid public exposure, like the Samaritan woman? Why?
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| 2 |
Why does Jesus ignore social barriers? When and why should you?
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| 3 |
What makes a drink of water so refreshing?
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| 4 |
How does your answer describe what Jesus offers to you?
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| 5 |
How can you share his water with someone else? Whom do you know who’s thirsty?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | Share with the group a story about a time when you were sick. |
| 2 |
Do you prefer to be the person who is sick, or the person who has to take care of the sick?
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| 3 | Did you ever have a time when you were glad you were sick? if so, share the story. |
| 4 |
What are some illnesses that you feel are self-induced (that people bring on themselves)? how do you respond in these situations?
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| Reading: John 5:1-47 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
Why did Jesus select “the worst case” for his healing at Bethsaida?
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| 2 |
How closely are spiritual health and physical health aligned?
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| 3 |
What are some ways personal guilt can affect personal health or mental health?
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| 4 |
What’s the best news this healing offers about Jesus?
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| 5 |
Apply this good news to Jesus’ declaration that he is the Judge of the world (5:22).
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | What is your favorite type of bread? |
| 2 |
What is the longest you have gone without food? Why?
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| 3 | When you are really hungry what do you crave? |
| Reading: John 6:1-71 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
Why did Jesus turn down the invitation to become their king?
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| 2 |
What storm in your life is Jesus walking on right now, and what is he saying to you?
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| 3 |
What does it mean to eat his flesh and drink his blood?
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| 4 |
What keeps you from leaving Jesus like so many did in John 6?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | Share a story about a time you got into trouble for doing something wrong |
| 2 |
If there was a time when someone defended you, or you defended them, tell that story.
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| 3 | Who are the people in your life that accept you no matter what you have done? |
| Reading: John 8:1-36 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
What was the point the scribes and Pharisees were attempting to make?
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| 2 |
What was the point in Jesus’ response?
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| 3 |
If you had been the guilty one thrown at His feet, what would be going through your mind?
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| 4 |
Describe the freedom Jesus offers (vv 32, 36).
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| 5 |
When it comes to forgiving yourself when you fail and fall, put an x on the line to indicate where you are between the two ends:I always put myself down ___________I have learned to accept God’s forgiveness.
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | Describe what it was like when you played “blindman” as a child. |
| 2 |
How sensitive is our society to the seeing impaired?
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| 3 | If you were blind, how would you want to be helped? |
| Reading: John 9 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
Like the disciples why do we look on human suffering as a judgment from God?
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| 2 |
What does “Night is coming when no one can work” mean?
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| 3 |
What is the connection between Jesus being “the Light of the world” and the seventh-day Sabbath on which he conducted this miracle?
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| 4 |
How have we turned the Sabbath into a day of burden today?
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| 5 |
What in the world did Jesus mean in v 39?
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| Opening Up: | |
| 1 | Describe a time when you had to be a “shepherd.” |
| 2 |
If you were a shepherd, how would you define your success?
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| Reading: John 10 | |
| Reflecting: | |
| 1 |
What are the two I Am statements Jesus makes in this passage?
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| 2 |
What would you say are the three most important tasks of a shepherd?
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| 3 |
What are the two most important tasks of a sheep?
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| 4 |
Why do you suppose shepherds were the first to hear of the Good Shepherd’s birth?
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