Discussion Questions 8/1/20

8/1/2020

These discussion questions are based on the sermon on 8/1/20.

Here are some discussion questions that you can talk about with the people that are in your home with you. You can also call a friend who was watching and discuss it with them. Or you can break out a notebook and use these questions to journal your thoughts on the message. Those who are at the church will discuss this after the message.

1. Why is fellowship so important?

2. How is love involved with fellowship?

3. How does fellowship with God lead to fellowship with one another?

4. Why do some people not gather together?

5. What are some ways that we can foster fellowship now a days?

6. How can church function more like a community?

7. What message did you personally take away from this sermon?

8. How can you apply this sermon to your life?

9. What practical thing can you do today to get started?

Feel free to share some of your thoughts in the comment section below:

4 Comments

Selva Mason

8/2/2020 08:49:02 pm

1. Why is fellowship so important?

Fellowship is important because we get to spend more time together, getting to know and understand Christ more and sharing God's love. Something that a realize from today's sermon is that when we fellowship we fellowship to collectively strengthen our relationship with God; and the purpose of fellowship is worshiping together with Christ at the center...so we bond together in Christ.

9. What practical thing can you do today to get started?
I can begin to get to know my church family better by spending more time with them or talking to them more often. Its funny, sometimes I pray with and for people and at the end of the conversation, I think to myself...well who will I ask to pray for me? Who will I pray with about things that I would like to pray about? And I say to myself, I will pray to God. So then I do exactly that. Maybe I could begin to consider others in the community as prayer partners...

Wayne Jamel

8/8/2020 08:14:43 pm

You know we never know who is praying for us. But at the end of the day Jesus prays for us as well.

Elizabeth (Comment from Youtube Channel)

8/16/2020 11:29:48 am

I learned that fellowship with God means fellowship with the body of Christ, which is, the church, the people. Although I kinda knew this before, I never paid attention to the frequency and importance which this call to fellowship appears in the scriptures.

I learned that our spiritual walk cannot just be 1:1 with Jesus. Also, fellowship is MORE than just witnessing to others. I now see clearly how we are repeatedly told that when we are truly connected to Jesus, we will have a bond with our brethren and we will naturally desire that fellowship. You pointed out 1 John 1:7 , “ if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another”. It reminds me of John 14:15 “if you love me, keep my commandments”. It’s an “if/then” statement. If we have Christ, then we will desire fellowship with the people of God. We will truly love them. In the same way, if we love Christ we will desire to obey & please Him.

Since this sermon, I’ve been meditating on the way disciples and apostles in the days of Acts were of one accord and then they received the Holy Spirit. It makes me wonder, how can we expect to receive the Holy Spirit (latter rain) unless we are of one accord with each other? And how can we be of one accord unless we are walking with Christ? Maybe a lack of desire to fellowship is a warning sign of our spiritual condition. “Walking in darkness”.
Likewise, a desire for fellowship with one another is a symptom of having the LOVE of Jesus in our hearts.

Love how you pointed out their willingness to bond even under threat of death. They were meeting every day, sharing and caring like true family! Selling their valuables to give resource to a brother or sister in need. Wow. And yet, nowadays many of us are so easily shaken out of fellowship when any little challenge arises, most pointedly these days, the quarantine challenge which shifted us all online. We lost some, but gained others. One can’t force people to fellowship. It has to come from within.

Such a thought-provoking sermon. It made me rethink the VALUE of fellowship. Thank you!!

8/16/2020 11:35:56 am

Wow what wonderful insight. You are absolutely right... you cannot force fellowship. When people feel obligated to gather together then its almost defeated. That's like forcing people to be friends. It's interesting because the people that are most legalistic I have not seen come back. Perhaps that is because attendance was checking off what they needed to do, but now that they don't "need" to go to church because their is an online option, they can check off their quota for the week and go online. The online stuff is a blessing don't get me wrong. But it can never replace the power of in person interaction.

Keep meditating on what they did in Acts. The more that we look to these Biblical examples, the more it will transform our minds on how we see church.

Discussion Questions 8/1/20

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