OUTRAGE Week 4

1- Have you ever heard the story of Jonah and the whale before? What do you know about it?

We're going to be looking at a story from Jonah's life and Paul's life to contrast their response to negative situations.

READ Jonah 4

2- Have you ever been mad at God for allowing someone to get away with doing bad and giving them grace? How have you seen God do that in your life? 

3- Think about times where something happened that made you live in discomfort. How did you respond to God during that time? 

READ Acts 17:22-28

4- Where do you have your most interactions with non-Christians? Have you ever talked about your faith around them? If so, how did the conversation go?

In Acts 17, Paul is preaching to people who believe differently than him, desiring that they know God.

5- What is your response when people believe/think differently than you? Why?

6- Think about the most outrageous moral issue in your opinion, one where you are 99.9% sure you are right. You don't have to share the issue with the group, but talk about how you think you would react to someone on the opposite side joining your rGroup.

7- Look again at verse 25-27. Paul's hope is that these people would be saved. Who in your life do you desire for them to be saved? How are you praying for them and evangelizing them? 

READ Acts 17:30

8- A message of repentance was the same message Jonah preached. What does it mean to repent? When is the last time you repented? 

Optional:: During election week, especially in the middle of a pandemic, it is tempting to pray for a candidate that will suit your beliefs. But Acts 17:25 says that God's purposes are not served by human hands, even the hands of the President of the United States. If you feel like your group is close enough relationally to do this, have a time of prayer and repentance that God would change our hearts and heal our land through His purposes and in His timing.