to serve like jesus we must see like jesus
TO SERVE LIKE JESUS WE MUST SEE LIKE JESUS. DISCOVER (PRE-WORK) Before and while you read this passage, ask the Spirit of God to illuminate your heart and mind and bring conviction and clarity of his truth for your life. Take some time during your own personal study to process through these four key questions:
1. Who is God? How do I know God more fully through this passage? 2. What Has God Done? How do I see God’s character in action here? 3. Who Am I? How does God’s character and action inform my identity? 4. What Do I Do? If my identity has been reshaped, how do I live? Scripture:LUKE 8:40-56
NURTURE Confess out loud to one another areas of personal struggle or unbelief that the Spirit revealed during your personal study. Consider these questions together: 1. How can the four questions (Who is God? What did he do? Who am I? What do I do?) shape the way we think about God and our lives? 2. Justin talked about the dangers of being a "4th question” person. Do you remember what those dangers were? Do you ever find yourself focusing too much on question 4? 3. Jesus saw people, no matter who they were, as simply sons and daughters of God. How would this reshape the way you interact with people if you could do the same? 4. When we see our pain through human eyes, it can seem huge and unmanageable and yet Jesus manages. How does he see our pain differently? 5. The way Jesus heals both Jairus’s daughter and the woman suggest something about power, what did you take from that?
ACT In light of your time together, what steps will you take to act on your new discoveries and affirmed beliefs? 1. How could you use the 4 questions to remind yourself of the Gospel or correct harmful behavior? 2. How can your fellow DNA members help you avoid being a 4th question person? 3. Why do you think you see people as anything but sons and daughters of God and how might you change your perspective to better match Jesus’? 4. How can we put on the “Lens of Faith” every day so that we can see our and others’ pain as Jesus does? 5. One reason why our pain seems so unmanageable is because we rely on our own power to overcome it, what might happen if we relied on Jesus’s power? How would we do that?
NURTURE Confess out loud to one another areas of personal struggle or unbelief that the Spirit revealed during your personal study. Consider these questions together: 1. How can the four questions (Who is God? What did he do? Who am I? What do I do?) shape the way we think about God and our lives? 2. Justin talked about the dangers of being a "4th question” person. Do you remember what those dangers were? Do you ever find yourself focusing too much on question 4? 3. Jesus saw people, no matter who they were, as simply sons and daughters of God. How would this reshape the way you interact with people if you could do the same? 4. When we see our pain through human eyes, it can seem huge and unmanageable and yet Jesus manages. How does he see our pain differently? 5. The way Jesus heals both Jairus’s daughter and the woman suggest something about power, what did you take from that?
ACT In light of your time together, what steps will you take to act on your new discoveries and affirmed beliefs? 1. How could you use the 4 questions to remind yourself of the Gospel or correct harmful behavior? 2. How can your fellow DNA members help you avoid being a 4th question person? 3. Why do you think you see people as anything but sons and daughters of God and how might you change your perspective to better match Jesus’? 4. How can we put on the “Lens of Faith” every day so that we can see our and others’ pain as Jesus does? 5. One reason why our pain seems so unmanageable is because we rely on our own power to overcome it, what might happen if we relied on Jesus’s power? How would we do that?
