Joining Jennifer for this week’s Behind The Message is Pastor Jeremy and Pastor Paul. The three of them discuss further the weekend’s message on running the race of faith taken from Hebrews 11 & 12. Watch the recording to learn more about how to run the race of faith, how faith & obedience are two sides of the same coin, and how the gospel transforms all of life.
Big Truth:
Faith Is A Race
Big Ideas:
- We Run In Community. (Heb 12:1)
- We Run With The Encouragement And Example Of Faithful Saints. (Heb 12:1)
- We Run, Laying Aside Every Weight And Sin. (Heb 12:1)
- We Run The Race God Has Given Us. (Heb 12:1)
- We Run With Endurance. (Heb 12:1)
- We Run With Our Gaze Fixed On Jesus. (Heb 12:2-3)
Discussion
Lead Group Members to discuss the following…
- What Got You? Ask your group members to each share a takeaway from the weekend’s sermon or from the BTM video that got them thinking or doing.
- Read the following passages. Based on these passages, what is a definition for the word “faith.”
- Hebrews 11:1-2
- Romans 1:17
- James 2:26
- Consider Big Idea # 3: We Run, Laying Aside Every Weight And Sin. (Heb 12:1). Discuss the two things that the author of Hebrews challenges believers to lay aside. Share with your Discussion Group any weight or sin that is holding you back in your race of faith.
- Read the following passages and discuss the importance of endurance when running the race of faith.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
- James 1:2-4
- Romans 15:4-5
Identify and share with your group any areas of your own race of faith where you need to run with endurance.
- Read Hebrews 12:2-3. How does fixing our eyes on Jesus encourage us in running our own race of faith?
Resources for weight loss:
A Woman of Moderation by Dee Brestin
Made To Crave by Lysa TerKeurst
The Daniel Fast by Rick Warren
