The Gathering

Story of Jesus healing woman being crippled by a spirit There is hope and healing, even after trauma"

How can conflict and disruption cause change for the better? This part of scripture is used by some to defend violence against people who don't follow Jesus. Lisa Fithian - "I create crisis because crisis is that edge where change is possible."""

How is the word "Heart" significant in scripture?

Are you too busy to hear God speaking to you? Can we not recognize God‘s hope for us because we are too busy in our every day tasks.

Have you found a way to work with the things in your life that are harmful instead of living with the discomfort of changing them? Are you so comfortable with the status quo that you are afraid to leave a bad situation and upset your routine

What do you need to forgive your father for?

How do you live your life differently because of God and therefore others live their lives differently because of you? Our personal experience with God flows through us so that we can share it with others.

Are you willing to go through pain to have a new path? Through pain, God offers us a new path, new starts and a new beginning.

Do you have faith in God? Faith is following when you do not yet know what the future holds? People of great achievement have to step out not knowing what the future holds

What kind of community do you want to have and who’s in and who’s out? How we define our community and our church is central to how we live

What voice will you follow when you have many different voices and opinions to listen to? We are like sheep in a pen who have many shepherds and many voices to listen to.

Do you have the ability to see your life in a new way? Are you walking around the world with blinders on?

How does what I do help to love my neighbor and love God? Does fear keep us locked up and unable to reach out to others?

Do you believe God can do something new through you? From the dark places in your life something new can spring fourth.

Are you willing to recognize your hopes and dreams and follow them? Out of the death of one hope, God can do new and amazing things with your life.

Do you focus on what you have lost and forget to imagine what is possible? Your future is not determined by your past mistakes.

Do you struggle seeing Grace been given to those that do not deserve it? Resentment blocks us from seeing the good things that surround us.

What does your life mean? What it is is not what it has to be.

What is stopping you from living out God's kingdom in heaven here on Earth? God's kingdom is God living within us on Earth in peace.

What lies do you tell yourself? You are not alone in your lies others feel the same.

What are the areas of my own life that might need to look different? A commitment to following Christ requires you to be honest with yourself and your life.

Does God expect you to be perfect? God blesses the left out and ignored.

Are you going so fast in your life that you don't see the people right in front of you? Is your life so busy that you don't have time for God?

What are the walls in your own life that Jesus is asking you to scale? We should put ourselves in a situation that makes us interact with those that are different than us.

Are you choosing to do life together or in isolation? Why is it important to be connected with others?