Discussion Questions | 28 February 2021

It has been almost a year since we have been physically gathering together on a Sunday. We have all been affected by the COVID restrictions and all felt the implications of these restrictions for living out our faith.

Now that services have recommenced, some of us are choosing to continue to engage online while others are back meeting together. But as restrictions appear to ease and the joy of seeing one another again is experienced … a deeper question prevails … NOW WHAT?

‘What are we doing here?’ What are we doing? Why should we gather? Who are we? Who am I in this? Who am I supposed to be? Where are we headed? What is this all about? What difference does this make? How do we connect with one another? How do we conduct ourselves?

We could just go back to the way things were pre-COVID … or has God been working through COVID to more deeply confirm and press into us some things?

Discuss one or more of the following questions:

1. Following this week’s service, what did you most remember and why?

2. What does it mean for you to be a kingdom priest? What does that look like in your life?

3. Read Matthew 5:17-20. How do you see the ten commandments? Is it a list of rules and regulations? Do you believe it still applies to us? Why?

4. Read Matthew 5:21-30. How does Jesus call us to fulfil the ten commandments?

5. What implication does obeying the ten commandments have on your everyday life?

6. “You cannot fulfil the last eight of the commandments if you don’t fulfil the first two commandments.” Do you agree or disagree? Provide examples in your life.

7. God gives us as individuals the power to live out the 10 commandments through the person and work of Jesus Christ. Discuss.

8. What do you think you need to un-learn or learn this week?