Small Groups
We believe in a rhythm to church life. The rhythm, simply put, is: out onto the frontline, withdraw behind the frontline.
The frontline is the place where we share the gospel and seek to be a blessing to people as Christ's ambassadors. For some people the frontline is their place of work, for others its their family, for still others its school or uni, or community groups. The frontline is where we are most of the time. We spend hours and hours and hours on our frontline.
The frontline is a place where people get wounded. It's also a place of advance. There are both hurts and joys on the frontline. We need to share the joys and be healed from our hurts. This is why we withdraw behind the frontline into our small groups. In our small groups we share with one another about our time on the frontline; we pray for each other; we build each other up through Bible Study; we refresh each other so as to go back to the frontline once again.
Small Groups - 7th July 2010
Mark 6v30-44: Feeding the 5000
FIX YOUR EYES ON JESUS
1. What help us to fix our eyes on Jesus? Hebrews 12v2
2. A Miracle-working Saviour. Pretend you are one of the 5000; what would you would notice, say and do while you were there? What would you say when you got home and told someone who wasn’t there?
3. A training Saviour. Pretend you are one of the apostles; what you would notice, say and do at this event? What would it teach you?
4. A compassionate Saviour. What differences are there between Jesus’ approach to the crowd and that of his disciples? How tired were the disciples (cp v30-31 with v6-13). How much did this affect their response to the crowd? What blunts our desire to care for others? How is Jesus compassion shown here?
5. How can Bible-miracles help us fix our eyes on Jesus?
