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 20:43)

1. In what ways have you looked to our broken world to find the hope, light or security you desire in your own painful realities? How have you sought solutions from the kingdom of this world or distrusted your King? Take some time to confess the futility of your ways.

2. Take some time to embrace the light of Christ our king by choosing one of the following truths about Jesus and his kingdom to meditate on:

• In his first coming, Christ has already ushered in his new kingdom. It may not be fully established now but it will be one day. How does this help you reframe your painful reality today? 
• Think about what it means that Christ is the light in our dark world. How does this reframe the pain and suffering that we see around us? 
• If you are in Christ, you are now a citizen of heaven. How does your life reflect your citizenship? Where does it fail to do so? 
• Christ compassionately heals all sickness. It may not happen in this lifetime, but it will ultimately be healed at the end. What sickness or suffering are you asking him to heal? If your situation has not changed, how might you reinterpret His decision to wait as evidence of his love for you? Pray for trust in His timing and goodness.
• Our king is loving and good to us. In what ways have you presumed upon, minimized, or demanded a different expression of his love? Will you commit to embrace your King in trust, not for his gifts or answers to prayer but because he is worthy of it?  

3. As you embrace the light of Christ, how might you also reflect it? Consider the following or think of your own.

• Is there someone in your life you want to bring to Him? Are you prepared to share the facts of the gospel to them? How might you explain the connection between the gospel of the kingdom with their struggles in life? Or how can you testify of how being a citizen of God’s kingdom helps you in similar struggles? 
• Is there someone you can serve in love as a “foot-washer,” with kindness, patience, service, or prayer? How can you point others to Christ through your love, including the church family? 
• In what ways might you decrease so that he can increase? What would it look like for you to serve in a way that raises up Christ?