07 Mar
~Read Invitation to the Desert: Matthew 4: 1-11 as a group... what resonates, draws your attention, or surprises you about this reading?
~Discuss the relationship between the 2 passages.
~Describe a personal desert experience to the group and what you learned about God in the process...
~Jesus was tempted to assert his power (Economic, Political and Social) while in the desert... in what ways are you tempted to use your power?
Questions for you to ponder about the incarnation:
Read Invitation to the Desert: Matthew 4: 1-11
~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?
~Jesus refused the temptations of satan by quoting scripture... what role does scripture have in your resistance/ refusal of temptations?
What needs to be rebuilt, redeemed, or reconstructed (resurrected) in your faith?
What warnings do we need to consider from the prophets? why? What warnings do we ignore?