Sermon Review/Preview Questions
Review/Preview Questions for Sunday, June 15, 2025
Sermon review -- Mark 7:1-23:
- What excuses do you make to avoid the commandments of God? Religious actions? Claiming ignorance or inability? (Share this with a trusted friend and pray to God for one another)
- How do you “get around” the parable Jesus teaches? In what ways are you blaming outside things for your temptations? (Spend time assessing your own heart and confessing before God)
- Jesus roots the failure to keep God's commands to the heart and thoughts. What heart and thought areas need to be submitted to Jesus as the I Am and Greater Prophet? (Spend time in prayer and repentance seeking how God would empower the exercising of your faith in this area)
- What repeated word do you find in this text? How does that word reveal the main emphasis of this passage?
- Make a list of all the contrasts Paul makes in this text. How does this reveal the main point that Paul is making?
Review/Preview Questions for Sunday, June 22, 2025
Sermon review -- 2 Corinthians 3:4-6:
- What is the source of your sufficiency? At street level, what role does your performance play in answering this question?
- What is the power you are depending on moment by moment for your sufficiency before God?
- List all the contrasts in this passage. How do these contrasts continue to develop Paul's argument in chapter 3 so far?