Life Group Questions

1. If you were not able to hear this week’s sermon, consider going to the church website and listening to it. What main ideas did you gain from the message? Do you have any questions?

2. What are some things that come to mind when you think about being disciplined or seeing others disciplined? Describe a time when you were disciplined, and it helped you grow or mature as a person.

3. Do you think of discipline as a good or bad thing? Explain your answer. How do you think our society and culture view discipline? Do you think the biblical idea of discipline still applies today? Explain.

4. List some ways in which Jesus Christ endured suffering (cf. John 1:11; Matthew 20:17-19). What does the suffering of Christ show us? Why did Christ have to suffer? Does it seem wrong that God would call the perfect Son of God to suffer? Explain.

5. What should encourage and strengthen us about the example of Christ’s endurance while suffering? From where did His strength for enduring come? How can we find the strength to persevere through suffering and times of hardship?

6. What does it mean to have a proper perspective about our suffering? Do you struggle with keeping a proper perspective about your struggles? Explain.

7. Read Job 2:1-9 and 1 Peter 5:1-11. List at least three lessons from these passages about how we should respond to hardship in the world and discipline from the Lord. What encouragement do you find in these passages? How do these passages challenge you in your walk with God?

by Terry Beatty /  Lead Teacher and Ministry Vision