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CONNECT GROUP QUESTIONS

Like Jesus: Suffer Like Jesus

Begin with Your HEART To end the Like Jesus series, we talked this week about what it looks like to Suffer Like Jesus. While none of us would seek suffering, we do choose to love, follow, and trust Jesus. To trust Him with our very lives. For many believers, those choices have led to suffering unjustly, like Jesus. 1] Two people share a story about a time when someone showed you how much they loved you by making a sacrifice for you? [A generous gift, an act of service, giving of their time, etc.] How did that communicate love to you? 2] Which comes first in your view – the love for the person or the act of love [sacrifice or suffering]? Does someone see it differently?

In the WORD In this week’s teaching, we looked at Peter’s life and how Jesus discipled Peter to choose to love, follow, and eventually trust Him with his life. Let’s look at this passage of Scripture that Peter wrote after Jesus had returned to heaven to see his perspective later in life on suffering. Read 1 Peter 2:18-25 out-loud together.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1] What observations did you make from this passage that surprised you? 2] What specifically is the example that Jesus left for us to follow? Which examples of Jesus does Peter mention here? 3] Paint a picture of this principle lived out in real life. Describe a situation, real or imagined, of a Christian following in the steps of Jesus according to this passage.

My LIFE - our MISSION My Life In what ways are you currently wrestling with living out the truth of this passage of Scripture? [following in the steps of Jesus in suffering.] Our Mission “Is the Spirit flowing through us?” Which fruits of the spirit [Galatians 5:22-23] play a role in our living Like Jesus in this area of following in the steps of His suffering? “Who shares my tough stuff?” What creative and supportive actions could you take as a group to help someone endure because they are suffering for doing good? We shouldn’t let anyone do this alone.