FIRST PREZ SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION Questions

FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 30, 2024

FOUNDATIONS SERMON SERIES: “Our Value of COURAGE” by Elders Paul Zukunft and Leona Larkin

SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: Joshua 1:9, John 8:2-11

HEAD (KNOWLEDGE)

1. Identify and unpack every single command in the theme verse.

2. What is the back story for the theme verse?

3. What is offered in the verse which allows for all the courage required? Talk about the provision which is offered. Where do you see both the courage as well as the provision in some of the stories from the Book of Joshua?

4. What did Elders Paul Zukunft and Leona Larkin say which further unpacked this Value of Courage for you?

5. Were there other stories of courage?

6. To what extent does Jesus display Courage in John 8:2-11 with the Pharisees using the woman caught in adultery?

HEART (TRANSFORMATION)

Ask yourself — first with reference to your personal life; second with reference to your ministry life:

1. To what extent does courage characterize me?

2. What shape does courage take in my life? 

3. To what extent is courage a “filter” I use in making decisions – something I pass everything through?

4. Identify two regular behaviors which provide evidence for your answers above.

5. What are two slippery behaviors which reveal that you sometimes operate outside of courage?

6. What is an example of a time when you fully lived into this Value of courage?

7. What would help you live into this value more fully?

HANDS (SPIRITUAL STEPS OF THE WEEK)

1. What is one thing you will commit to doing this week to more fully live into FPC’s value of COURAGE (as you are joining Jesus to restore and transform one another and our world)? 

2. Be sure to take any other steps the speakers gave.