| The sermon this weekend February 27th/28th will be on Luke 22:39-46. The questions below are to be used for your small group meeting that relates to this sermon.
1. How is God changing your life?
2. When you think of “temptation”, what comes to mind first?
OBSERVE
3. Gethsemane was a special place for Jesus where he went regularly to pray to his heavenly father. Here Jesus’ teaching theme is resisting so they ‘not fall into temptation.” (vv. 40, 46) What temptations would the disciples face?
4.What is the relationship between prayer and resisting temptation?
5. How does Jesus teach out of his own life?
REFLECT
6. What does “temptation” look like? What makes something tempting?
7. Jesus not only prayed, but “prayed more earnestly.” What would that mean for Jesus? For you?
8. How do you discern your Father’s will? How do you discern it from your own?
9. In what area of your life do you struggle to submit to your Fathers’ will?
ACT
10. What is your next step in following Jesus? What would help you “not fall into temptation”?
11. Who could you help to take their next step in following Jesus by helping him/her resist temptation? |
