Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
In the first sermon of the series, Pastor Kim establishes the core belief that runs beneath all of the Christian life—that Christ is life, and to live is Christ.
- Which of these situations best describes you? Choose one to focus on.
Situation 1: Your life lacks joy and is instead full of worries and anxieties or an entangling sin.
- What worries, challenges, conflicts, problems distract you or take your focus from Christ? List them out.
- If you haven’t already, work through last week’s Fuel. Ask God to help you evaluate your worship: are we looking inward at our own priorities? Where are we looking for hope?
- Recall the truth of the gospel: if you are a believer, remember what Christ has done for you in restoring you back to God. How does this help reframe your view on your sufferings and sins? How does Christ’s work on the cross change your relationship with God and your perspective on your problems?
- Prayer: Bring your cares to the Lord. Be honest and confess where your worship has gone astray. Repent and ask God to give you the desire and help you need to turn back to Him in faith as your life. Pray for help to redirect your worship to Christ alone and trust Him for the fruit of joy that comes as you do. Ask Him to help you, by the Spirit, to accept your trials as an invitation to grow in grace.
- Invite a brother or sister in Christ into your journey. Share your struggles with them and ask them to pray for faith, obedience, and trust in Christ in the midst of your struggle with your suffering or sin.
Situation 2: You desire to grow in joy by partnering with others and the church in spreading the gospel.
- Reflect on the definition of gospel ministry: “Gospel ministry is pursuing the expansion of the gospel in the hearts of believers and in the salvation of unbelievers.”
- Are there believers in the church family that you might encourage in their faith as they go through seasons of discouragement or struggle with sin? How might you enter into their suffering with them through prayer or by offering practical help?
- If you’re new or no one comes to mind, what is one way you can take initiative? Consider the announcements in “Family Time”: are there ways you can participate by joining in prayer with others, receiving training for service, volunteer your time, or give generously towards various ministry endeavors?
- Are there ministry leaders in the church, missionaries, or other servants of Christ that you can check in with and offer to pray for? Send a text, email or letter to communicate your gratefulness for what God is doing in and through them. Learn how you might walk with them.
2. Close your time by thanking God for restoring us to fellowship with God through Christ. Praise Him for the unity and fellowship the Father, Son and Spirit and that we are now welcomed back to relationship with Him. Ask that you might likewise reflect that same fellowship by growing in the grace of Christ and loving our brothers and sisters worshipping with us in the church.
