Community Question: Describe the biggest rivalry that you have had in your life? (examples: neighboring HS, The Dallas Cowboys, a competitor for the heart of a loved one, that family member who always takes your seat)
Read Eph. 2:11-22 as a group and write down what you observe about the passage. Talk about initial observations/questions of the passage as a group and then transition into these questions.
What is your preferred, natural method to get peace in a relationship? Do you prefer to take control and try to get people to see things your way? Or would you rather pretend there is not a problem at all?
How does looking for peace through the lens of our relationship with Jesus change the way we think about it?
How does it give us hope?
What are the limits for what we can hope for? (see Romans 12:18)
How can we have peace personally, when there isn’t peace
relationally?
The passage says that Jesus “preached peace” to those near and far. Paul gives us four examples of how we can demonstrate them.
As a new humanity, how do we rehearse and demonstrate the peace Jesus offers?
As new citizens, how do we honor the differences in our spiritual family without getting too distant from them to fear them?
How does your Spiritual family expand your life as you get to know them?
What would you say are the unique cultural dimensions of Project 938’s particular expression of the temple of God? What parts of our church most reflect God’s beauty? What parts continue to need God’s redemptive work?
Who is someone that is different than you that you can reach out to get to know this week?
