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.
1. What is an area of injustice you are dealing with—someone who has hurt you, is hard to love, someone who makes life difficult for you? Is there someone you need to love well or better? If you cannot think of an individual, spend some time thinking of an injustice you see around you in your workplace, a social issue, etc.
Explain why this injustice angers or grieves you. What is so wrong or sad about it?
2. Honestly ask the Lord to search and try your heart (Ps. 139:23, 24). In this injustice, have you added more difficulty and pain for this person or other people? How has your anger or sadness made life harder for someone else or dishonored God? Confess your sinful desires and actions to the Lord.
3. Take time to reflect on the injustice of the cross. What injustice did Christ face on our behalf? How, in God’s better and bigger eternal purposes, has that injustice been made right?
How does this help give you perspective and hope in the particular injustice you are now struggling with?
4. Even if you don’t understand what is going on in this unjust situation, how might remembering God has a better story help you grow in the fear of the Lord and faith? Where do you have opportunity to learn to trust God more? What gifts has the Lord given you to enjoy, even in the midst of this circumstance? How can you give thanks for them?
How might remembering God’s story is bigger, that He will one day make all wrongs right, bring comfort? What would it mean to rest and trust God in it?
5. As you rest and trust in the Lord’s eternal Story, how might this free you to move outward in love towards others? Prayerfully seek the Lord: If you are struggling with a broader injustice, what are some general actions of love you can take? If you are struggling with a specific individual, what might loving this person well entail? Share your struggles with a brother or sister in Christ who can pray for you, offer insights or provide accountability.
6. Pray that our collective response to injustice as a church might reflect trust in the Lord’s bigger and better Story as we seek to walk alongside and provide comfort, help, and support to those in need. Pray that this will allow us to point to Christ as we love in the midst of unjust circumstances.
