Session 7: A New Beginning

• What to Share:

  • Something in your life that is growing well

    • Means: Share something that is going well, went well, or felt like flourishing from the previous week that you want to give thanks to God for.

  • And/or Something that’s wilting

    • Means: Share about a situation that is not going well or is discouraging from the previous week that you need God’s help with.

Remember to pay attention to the person on your right and take notes if necessary, because you will be praying for them.

Reflection Questions:

• Considering the homework activities from the previous week, share an answer to one of the following questions.  You do not have to have had a profound theological experience.  The practice of paying attention and sharing our experience is valuable in and of itself. 

  • What did you come to know about God?

  • What did God call you to?

  • What did you see that you hadn’t seen before?

  • What surprised you?

  • What troubled you?

  • Where do you go from here?

(Video Above)

• Video: Fill in the Blank

• Discussion Question:

  • What are the characteristics of the new kingdom reality?

  • Why do you think water is used at baptism?

    • (Ideas: Symbol for rescue (like exodus), enter into Promised Land (like crossing the Jordan), cleansing, drowning the old self, rebirth)

  • Why does it matter (to us today) that the Church decided to include the gentiles?

• Verse: Acts 2:1-3, 42-47

• Questions For Discussion:

  • What detail stood out to you and why?

  • What do you wonder about this passage?

  • What does the Holy Spirit make possible in this passage?

  • What is the Good News in this passage?

  • What does this passage reveal about how God sees creation?

  • How does this passage call creation to respond to God?

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