24 Jan
-What resonates with you in this passage, draws your attention, or surprises you?
-What do we know to be true about us as sons and daughters of God?
-Dream together about what we would do/say differently or more fully as Vibrant if we fully accepted our identity as the children of God.
-What might we then be accused of in Portland and what would our "defense" be?
-What resonates with you in this passage, draws your attention, or surprises you?
-What do you know is true about yourself as a child of God but have a hard time accepting and living out?
-How has the falleness of the world added to this struggle for you? Experiences you've had? Hurts you've felt?
-What could it look like in your life to embrace your identity in Christ on the level that Stephen did?
-In what contexts do you "couch" your faith to avoid offending?
What 'tables need to be 'turned over' in the name of Jesus in our homes, church, city, nation and world?
How do you live Missionally? What is your mission (according to Jesus?)? How can you live more missional in your everyday? At work? School? Home? Time with friends? By yourself?
The incarnation: 1 Corinthians 9
What responsibility do we have for our own faith? What responsibility do we have for one another's faith?