Discussion Questions
Week of February 19, 2023
- Start with an ice breaker like, “What celebrity do people say you look like?”
- Have someone pray as you begin
- Read Luke 9:23-26
- What stands out to you in this passage?
- Have several in your group look up and read these verses: How do each of the following verses connect with what Jesus is saying in Luke 9:24-25?
*Exodus 20:3-5
*Deuteronomy 6:5
*Matthew 6:19-21, 24
*Luke 10:38-42
*Philippians 3:13-14
*Colossians 1:10
- When have you had a hard time taking up your cross and dying to self?
- When have you been more open to dying to self? What was the occasion?
- Think of a time you have died to self, what was the eventual outcome?
- What are some ways people attempt to “hang on to their life” (v. 24)?
- Why is it futile to “hang on to your life”?Then why do people attempt to do it anyway?
- How is the description of following Jesus here different from what many may have expected about following Him?
- Close in prayer