04-14-19 Digging Deeper


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Digging Deeper

Leaving “Out.” Leaning IN! Week of April 14, 2019

These Digging Deeper questions can be used the week following the Sunday message. You can use these questions for personal growth and development, or as a guide for your family or Connect Group discussions.

Message Recap: Read Luke 23:32-43 and John 17:20-23.

We'll never be “All In” until we become convinced of two astonishing realities: 1) That all of God lived IN Jesus Christ, His son; and 2) that all of God lives IN everyone who has faith in His son. The whole point of Jesus' work was to bring us all the way IN! Most of us live on the outside looking in, never convinced we really belong and are passionately wanted. We simply can't wrap our sinful heads around God's perfect heart...but faith does. Because of Jesus, we get to choose between living all in the love of Christ, or all out in the broken of the world. Leave “out” and all it means, in order to be IN to ALL Christ is!

Pray Lord, thank you for loving us! Thank you for inviting us into your love. Thank you Jesus, for your sacrifice on the cross that offered us a path out of darkness and into the light. We pray that we would see that we don't belong out in the world and that we would choose to be close to our Father. Amen!

Getting Started • What is your favorite Easter memory? • Tell about a time when you have jumped ALL IN (figuratively or literally)?

Digging Deeper 1. Read Luke 23:32-43. Who do you tend to be in hard times: a passive viewer, a mocker, or the one to takes it all to Jesus? 2. Explain a time you felt that you experienced love in the same way that God must love us. What was the experience and how did it feel? (Example - if you’re a parent, meeting your child for the first time; being proud of a friend or sibling; how you feel about your significant other). 3. What does it mean that Jesus was “incarnated”? 4. Why is it important to recognize that Jesus physically came down to Earth and became human? (Hebrews 2:14-18) 5. John 16:33 says “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Notice it says we WILL have trouble, not if we have trouble or might have trouble. Why is it then, that we can be so surprised by the trials and hard times we face? 6. Remember. Jesus has already overcome the world! How should this shape your view of the trials you do face?

Living Jesus In John 17:20-23, Jesus prays for you. Jesus Christ had your circumstances and your life in mind when he prayed that we may be one, Jesus in us and He in God. Jesus has invited us in to relationship with him. We are forgiven through his choice to love us. Allow yourself to believe and to be loved and be love in the world. In the world you will have trouble, but in Him you will have peace.

Your Story What “out” have you left behind to attempt at being more “all in” than you have been before? Share your personal story with us at severnrun.com/stories. Digging Deeper

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