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.

Go to This Sunday’s Sermon start at 19:43

1. Pastor David points out that disappointment occurs when reality does not match our expectations. Describe one way this has happened in your life. What did you expect? How is your reality different than your expectation? Fill in the blank in regards to this disappointment: “If only ________ would happen, then I would be content or at peace.” How has this belief created discontent or restlessness in your heart? 
2. How has this cast doubt in your faith in Christ? Confess this to God. Ask Him to help you see your disappointing circumstances from a new perspective.
3. Meditate on Ephesians 2:1-10. Lazarus’ physical resurrection is a miracle, but we who are in Christ experienced a different, but parallel, spiritual miracle. Reflect on this passage. Describe the spiritual miracle Christ performed for us on the cross.  Praise Him for being a different kind of King, one who is willing to humble himself, even to death, for you. Thank Him for drinking the cup of God’s wrath against us, that we may come to Him as our Father instead. 
4. Go back to the disappointment you highlighted in question 1. How does the gospel give you a new perspective as you look at it again? What new ways of understanding your circumstance, struggle, suffering, or sin do you gain? 
5. Pastor David pointed out that the pathway to peace through Christ often involves walking through the valley of the shadow of death. In regards to your disappointment, what kind of death might you need to face—a death to an idol, false belief, sin, dream, etc.? After considering what Jesus has given up for you, would you be willing to die to it? What immeasurable good—even greater than what you can imagine, ask, or think—might come if you are willing to relinquish or die to it? 
6. Close your time by turning your eyes back to Christ, surrendering yourself to Him. Praise Him for being our King. Let the truth that He will return a second time, this time on a stallion, be the balm for the discouragement you face today.