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 18:08)
Evaluate:
- Describe your life right now: your struggles, fears, pains.
- How do you tend to respond or manage them? How well have these fixes worked to help you move forward in trust and faithful living for Christ?
Meditate:
- What we meditate on will frame and fuel our thoughts and consequent responses. Spend intentional time to consider the gospel Story and God’s power to turn the worst and most hopeless situation into the best way to redeem humanity and restore our hope.
Separate:
- Ask God to help you to separate the fallenness of the world and the faithfulness of Christ in the midst of it. What have you been focusing on? How might the Gospel help reframe your difficulties to see His faithfulness in your sufferings?
- Take time to confess where you have focused inward instead of outward, what you have placed your hope on instead of Christ, where you have prioritized or even idolized circumstantial happiness over holiness, or forgotten God’s faithfulness to you.
Consecrate:
- In repentance, ask God to help you to choose to trust Him and His ability to write beautiful stories, even if your life feels overwhelming, messy, or broken right now. Will you trust that in His infinite wisdom and love, you are precisely where deems best for you, even if you can’t picture it right now? How might that help you to reframe your present situation?
Activate
- As an act of faith, what small steps can you take this week to look upward to God when your story takes a different path than you desire? How might remembering you are under the care of a wise, powerful, and loving God help you to think, speak, and/or serve differently this week? How might remembering that this hard day or season could be your most hopeful and joyous when reframed in light of the Gospel?
- Praise God that He writes beautiful stories for our lives that are greater than we can ever write for ourselves, whether you see it or not today.
