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Steve Gill - February 2, 2025
February 2, 2025
Pastor Steve Gill teaches part five in our series "The Last Arrow." Today’s key idea: What God wants to do through you is often more important than what God wants to do for you. Today's key text comes from 2 Kings 7. It's a story about four lepers who find themselves in a dire, hopeless, and urgent situation. What can I learn from this text? 1. Sometimes God’s “for you” is “for you.” 2. Many times God’s “for you” is more about his “through you.” 3. What you have been through is often how God works through you.
From Series: "The Last Arrow"
A series about the victory God has given us in Christ and the call to walk with a faith that never quits.
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KEY SCRIPTURE
In the first message in this new series, Matt drew from several Bible passages to point out the tension that exists between having faith and applying rational investigation. (Click on each passage listed to view it at bible.com).
START TALKING
- What sports, movies, or traditions have you grown up loving or enjoying because of your family or environment?
- When have you experienced being in the minority when it comes to a favorite sports team, belief, or tradition?
START SHARING
- Have you thought about how and why you came to believe what you believe about God? Where have you inherited belief or faith from?
- Matt talked about the difference between faith and “psychological certainty.” How do you define faith?
- How has doubt or questioning played a part in your life? Has doubt been something you embrace or something you are fearful of?
- Matt said, “I’m convinced it’s possible to be a passionate, full on follower of Jesus and still think through and wrestle deeply with what you believe.” Is it hard for you to picture what it looks like to hold faith and ask hard questions at the same time?
START LIVING
- Spend a few minutes on your own taking time to inventory where you have questions or doubt. What questions are at the core of your thinking?
- As part of this series, we’d love to know what questions you identify. You can even send them to us by texting us at (765) 399-2000. If possible, we’ll work some of these questions into the coming Sunday messages. (The questions will remain anonymous and we won’t know who is doing the asking.)
PEOPLE AND QUOTES MENTIONED
“One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth.” – Simon Weil
“God loves an honest question.” – Athol Dickson
WORSHIP SET
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