Pew2You
Tony Wofford
Church Arise
July 9, 2017
Highlights:
1. There is a problem, people are broken
A. In the fallen world
B. In the church
2. The good news is the hope we have in Christ.
3. We are the Church.
Discussion Questions:
1. Tony spoke about brokeness and the power of hope in the Lord. Discuss the difference between knowing brokeness that leads to hope and knowing brokeness that leads to living as a victim.
2. Why is hope a powerful evangelistic gift?
3. To make disciples we must be discipled. How are you being discipled by the Holy Spirit and by others in the family of God? How is your own personal spiritual growth opening you to be able to make disciples?
Key Scriptures:
-remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:12 NIV
-Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:27 NIV
-Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
-Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:3 NIV
-From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:16 NIV