BE SURE TO SHARE THESE ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS WEEK WITH YOUR GROUP!!
1. Backstage pass is next week from 10:35-10:55. Spread the word, get plugged in, and go All-In!
2. Next week is communion, which means that the rGroups for next week will be an invite night. Remember, invite night is not just a time to throw a party and have fun. It's designed to bring friends over to your house that may not know Jesus and aren't plugged in to a local church. Love on them, have a good time with them, and use that as an opportunity to invite them back to your group, invite them to church, and shine the light of the Gospel!
Let's reread the story together from Mark 12:1-12. To put it on more of a personal level, let's change the names up. Instead of landowner, say God. Instead of tenants, use personal pronouns (I, we, us). Does it read any different to you now? Does the meaning hit home when you start to verbalize this crazy story?
1. Compare and contrast yourself and God in this passage. List out some characteristics that you see from God. (patient, loving, caring, compassionate, pursuing, merciful, gracious)
Now, how do those contrast with who we are. (impatient, defiant, hateful, turning away from God, merciless, self-centered)
So what does this passage say about us, and what does this say about God?
2. If the above characteristics are true of God, then how should we be responding to Him? Remember that our viewpoint of God dictates how we respond to Him. Let me ask it another way.
Examine how you are responding to God with the areas of your life (time, energy, resources, finances, worship, evangelism, discipleship). Now, based on your response to Him, what does that say about what your viewpoint of God really is. If your life isn't showing that He is Lord, sustainer, savior, and owner, then is that really who you think God is?
Who would others say God is if people simply looked at your life and how you respond to Him?
3. After reading this story, what makes more sense: heaven or hell? Which one do you think you deserve? Is it really that hard to fathom that there are dire consequences for our actions?
4. What would you have done if you were confronted with the killer of your son/daughter? How would you have reacted? How does it make you feel when you find out how God reacted? What are your emotions when you realize that you are the guilty tenant in this story? And what do you think when God looks at you and offers forgiveness, adoption into his family, and writes you into the will?
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