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Life Group Q's: Gathering and Equipping 3/15


Questions for NEXT Sunday (Mar 22) here


GATHERING RECAP: Questions for Sun Mar 15

Message: Glorifying God (Pt 2): Sexual Purity (Will Rutt)

Context: Paul continues his challenge to the church - here correcting proud sexual immorality based on an abuse of grace


Disclaimer:

While we want to know each other in Life Groups, we aren’t fishing for confessions of concealed sin in life groups. We encourage that to happen in a core group.


  1. Relate: Has anyone not been baptized, or has doubts about your baptism? What's stopping you from signing up? We can help! (hello@sandhurst.net)

  2. Text: Scan through I Corinthians 6:12-20. What stands out? What is the difference between the culture's view of sex and the Biblical view of sex? (Hint: Biblical view in V15-18: Sex is a holy act - bc it demonstrates mutual service between a divinely united husband and wife, which itself symbolizes our unity as a church with God. And so sex symbolizes the sacred unity of marriage, which symbolizes our sacred unity with God. This is deeply meaningful - and only meaningful - if the physical symbol actually reflects the relational reality - that we are united to God, and a husband and wife united by God to each other.)

  3. V12-20: Paul addressed the problem of sexual sin with several things to know and one to do. What did Paul want them to know about their bodies? How does that impact the way you view your body?

  4. V18: Paul told them to flee, and Will talked about “preemptive fleeing” (ie…putting barriers between you and temptation). What have you done personally or in your family to help protect against temptation?

  5. V19-20: "You are not your own. You’ve been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body." We all have parts of our past we regret. Paul stirred Gospel truth into the sin problem. What passages of scripture would you want to speak over a person who is feeling the shame of past regret? (e.g. 1 John 1:9; Ps 51:10-12; Lam 3:19-24)

  6. Reflect: While repentance and confession feel like death, it's actually the opposite - they offer life while darkness and sin are death. For those who feel hopeless, the graphic below is a way forward - supported by a full process with a trusted friend or core group:

  7. Growth: What is a key application you take from this passage / message?

  8. Prayer


    Review the full sermon on the purpose of sex from Song of Solomon (2022) below:

EQUIPPING REVIEW: Last Sunday Mar 15, at 9AM: Personal Spiritual Life Class (Gym)

GRIEVING (handout) - How to grieve well

  • Grief is the natural response to loss, and therefore a universal experience

  • Believers gieve with hope, meaning we follow a process, over time, of hurting - in faith

  • Grief comes in waves of shock, disorientation, denial, fog, pain, guilt, anger, bargaining, depression, loneliness, acceptance, hope, reorientation

  • To help the grieving: NO cliches, YES - PAL: presence, (specific) action, life (together)

  • CCEF video Grieving with hope in the day-to-day


EQUIPPING PREVIEW: Next Sunday Mar 22, at 9AM: Personal Spiritual Life Class (Gym)

GENEROSITY (SERVING AND GIVING)- Sacrificial love: time & money, and how they relate


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