When God Puts You On Hold

When God Puts You on Hold – Pastor Perry Kallis – 5/13/2012

Text Matthew 15:21-28 - Small Group Discussion Questions

1. What strikes you about this passage?

2. What would you have done after Jesus said “It’s not right to take the food from the children and give it to the dogs”?

3. Why do you think Jesus put this woman on hold?

4. Who else did God put on hold in the Bible?

5. Have you ever been put on hold by God?

6. What was Jesus teaching his disciples through this woman?

7. What changed Jesus mind?  What did she demonstrate?

8. How do we factor into the story?

9. What does this story condemn? What does it exalt?

10. Have you been relentless in pursuing God?

11. Have you been relentless in showing God’s love to someone?

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “Exclusive Thirst Quencher” Pastor Perry Kallis – 4/22/2012

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “Exclusive Thirst Quencher” Pastor Perry Kallis – 4/22/2012

Text John 4:1-15 - Small Group Discussion Questions

1. When were you the most physically thirsty in your life?  What were the circumstances?  

2. How has God been purposeful in your life? Where can you look back on your life and see God’s hand purposely leading you even though you did not know it at the time.

3. Are there people or places in your own life that are like a Samaria to you?  Where you have bad attitudes, prejudices, and or jealousies? Why do you think that is? Is the attitude godly?  

4. Have you extended “relational graces” to someone recently?  Just like Jesus did with the Samaritan Woman.  Gone out of your way to show them God’s love?

5. Do you thirst after God and His Word?  Why or Why not?

6. How can we rekindle that thirst for God and His Word?  How can we return to our first love?

THe Living Gospel 4/15/12

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “The Living Gospel” Pastor Perry Kallis – 4/15/2012
Text John 3:31-36 - Small Group Discussion Questions
1. What does it take to become a Christian? What do you need to believe? What are the basics?

2. When you think of Jesus place in Heaven what do you imagine?

3. What is the difference between being from Heaven and being from Earth?

4. What does Jesus proclaim about Himself? What is John’s emphasis in this passage?

5. Read John 3:32-34 – What does John mean when he says “He gives the Spirit without measure”?

6. Why is it important that Jesus is fully God and fully man?

7. When you think of a powerful Jesus what do you imagine?

8. How do you feel about the phrase “Jesus must increase and I must decrease”?

9. From Pastor Perry’s Illustration about the balloon with air if we don’t want to be smacked around on Sunday what do we need to do?

The Lamb

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “The Lamb of God” - Pastor Perry Kallis – 2/5/2012
Text: John 1:29-37 - Small Group Discussion Questions
1. When you think of the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham what sacrifices have you willingly made for Christ?
2. What are the parallels between Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and God’s sacrifice of Jesus? What about differences?
3. What does the Gospel mean to you?
4. How would having a lamb as a pet, always a short term pet, have kept the Jews focus on God? What was the significance to the family?
5. What is the significance of the singular use of the word “sin” instead of “sins” in verse 29?
6. Did Jesus come to “tune-up” our lives? Why or Why not?
7. Why did John choose to call Jesus “The Lamb of God”?
8. How was it revealed to John the Baptist that Jesus was the Messiah?
9. How was it revealed to you that Jesus is your Savior and Lord?
10. What did Pastor Perry challenge us to sacrifice to God? Why?
11. When have you personally experienced Grace in your life from God or from others? When did you feel grace and mercy?

Zealous

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “Zealous” - Pastor Perry Kallis – 2/26/2012
Text: John 2:13-25 - Small Group Discussion Questions
1. How is God “not safe”?

2. Why is it that most people have lost their reverence and fear of God?

3. When you realize that God cannot be managed or manipulated how does that affect your spiritual life?

4. Why did Jesus need to confront sin before telling us about God’s Love?

5. What is the connection between our reverence for God and being broken over our sin?

6. What was Jesus ager directed at, the selling of things at the Temple or something else?

7. Why is it dangerous to go into God’s House with a carefree attitude?

8. How do we humble ourselves before God?

9. What is reverence for God?

10. What do people get “Zealous” for? Why are we not as zealous for God as other things?

11. What do you think John is saying in verses 23-25? What is his point?

12. What do you think about the saying “We Become What We Worship”?

A Father's Portrait of His Son: The Light

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– “The Light” - Pastor Perry Kallis – 1/15/2012
Text John 1:5-13 - Small Group Discussion Questions
The Farther away you get from the original the less value you have.
1. How many different types of light can you think of and what are their purposes?

2. What darkness in the world takes us away from the Original “Jesus”?
3. Why do we accept the things that are so far removed from Jesus? What are those things?

4. Why do you think John the Baptist was one of the greatest prophets?

5. What can we learn from John the Baptists Life? What can we emulate in our lives?

6. How can we reflect Jesus light in our everyday activates?

7. Why are people blind to the light of Jesus?

8. What is the difference between “receiving” and ‘Believing”?

9. What does it mean to you to be a light in a dark world?

10. When it comes to reflecting God’s Light is a single light best or many lights? Why?

A Father's Portrait: The Word

A Father’s Portrait of His Son– Pastor Perry Kallis – 1/8/2012
Text John 1:1-4 - Small Group Discussion Questions
1. What is unique about the Gospel of John compared to the other Gospels?

2. Why did John write His Gospel? Was it something deeper than a historical record?

3. Why did John use the word “WORD” to describe Jesus? What did that mean to the Greeks?, The Jews? How about you?

4. What are the implications from verse 1? How does that strike you?

5. How does verse 1 relate to Hebrews 1:3?

6.How do Revelation 1:7 and 2 Cor. 5:10 relate to who Jesus is? How does this knowledge affect you?

7. What does Colossians 1:16-17 paint a picture of in relation to Jesus?

8. How does Jesus bring Light to the world? How about to your life? What do you bring to the world?

9. Why is it important to come to Jesus daily? What if we don’t?