CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How does the idea of “glad celebration” being a part of our life together as a church sit with you? Do you feel like we do that well? Do you feel like you do that well? 2. How important are our church gatherings to you? Do you feel like you’ve missed something special if you were not able to be with the church gathering on a Sunday? 3. How do you feel about singing...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What is your initial gut-reaction when you read Hebrews 13:17? 2. What has your experience of leadership in the local church been like? 3. Is there anything in your attitude about or posture toward leaders that may be inhibiting your experience of the good God intends for you through leadership in the local church? 4. Do you pray for your leaders? If not, would you...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Early in the message there were three challenges to truth presented: denial of truth, fuzziness, and alternative “truths”. Which of those do you encounter most often? Do you detect any of those in your own thinking? 2. How conscious are you of your need for truth? Do you sense that truth is playing a sufficiently active role in your life when you face hard things?...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. The church is a distinct people. How has your experience at CrossWay been different than other groups or communities you have/are a part of? 2. In the church, as one author put it, our acceptance is "received, not achieved." How does this impact our relationships with one another? With the world around us? 3. What is it like to live as a Christian at school, work,...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Here’s the million-dollar question: What has your experience of the local church been like? Does it fit, though imperfectly, with what you now understand God intends it to be? 2. And here’s the two-million-dollar question: How are you contributing to your local church being a place where others experience the good of being loved? 3. Which of the three lines laid ou...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. When you think about membership in a church do you think more about formal membership or about being part of a family? 2. How do you feel about formal membership? Are you thinking about it in light of the spiritual reality it represents or merely as some organizational formality? 3. How does this idea of “belonging” strike you? How important is it to you? Are you e...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What was one thing you found helpful from this week’s sermon? 2. What are some strategies the world promotes for finding peace? How does God’s word give an alternate path? 3. What is one area of your life that you need to grow in entrusting to God? How can you do that this week? 4. Which of the 5 instructions would you like to grow in over the next few weeks and wh...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Do you find it natural or challenging to believe that God loves you and wants to do good to you? If it’s challenging, why? What truth(s) from Psalm 86 help you to trust his love and goodness? 2. How would you describe in your own words “the fear of the Lord”? How would your life be changed if your heart were more characterized by the fear of God? How can you grow i...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Of the three requests Jesus instructs us to make in Matthew 6:11-13 which is the most challenging for you? Why is that? 2. What might keep you from bringing any one of these requests to God? 3. When you bring requests like this to God do you feel like the emphasis is more on whether you’ll get what you asked for or on engaging in meaningful interaction with God abo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How would you describe your prayer life? Vibrant? Sporadic? Plodding, with occasional moments of sweet communion with God? Non-existent? 2. Do you feel you have fully grasped the reality of God as your Father? What associations are stirred up in you by the word “father”? What does Jesus (and the rest of Scripture) want to be stirred up in you by the word “father”?...

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Sermon Application Questions: 1. Where are you encountering trouble in your life that you can’t solve on your own? Is uncertainty about some aspect of the future tempting you to worry? 2. What truth about God from this passage (his unlimited power, unceasing watchfulness, and unfailing protection) do you find most helpful as you seek to entrust your trouble and uncertainty to him? 3. Do you find m...

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Sermon Application Questions: 1. How often do you make the direct connection between Christ’s birth and his death? Do you find it challenging to make that connection? If so, why? 2. Is it hard for you to see yourself as someone in captivity and in need of ransom? 3. Do you see anything of yourself reflected in the request of James and John in verses 35-37? 4. In what context in your life is it mos...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Do you find it hard to believe that Jesus is, as this story shows, a “friend of sinners”? Do you find it hard to believe that he desires fellowship with you, even though you fall short? Why do you think that is? What specific truths from the Bible can help you? 2. Imagine you have a friend who is not a Christian and doesn’t see their need for Jesus; they don’t beli...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. When you think about the purpose of Christ being born, what are the things that come to your mind? Has this idea of him coming “to bear witness to the truth” been a significant part of your thinking? 2. Much is made of Christ’s kingship, both at this birth (see Matthew 2:1-12) and at his death (John 18:32-37; 19:19-20). How regularly do you think of Jesus as your K...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How has this series on death most affected you? Is there some truth from God’s Word that has been newly planted or that has grown stronger? 2. What specifically about the resurrection of your body most excites you? 3. Is there a part of Paul’s teaching on the resurrection body that is particularly difficult for you to believe? What truth about God will strengthen y...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Paul says “to die is gain” largely because it means being with Jesus. Does the idea of actually being with Jesus capture your heart? What are the things of this life that might rival, or even undermine, your desire for Christ? 2. Are you afraid of dying? What exactly is it about dying that frightens you? What word of truth has God spoken to allay your fears? ______...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Which of the three “weights” of the inevitability of death are you presently most aware of in your life—its temptation to meaninglessness, the uncertainty of its timing, or the gradual debilitation of your body? 2. Is there a corresponding delight in the specific “overturning” work of God through Christ? Review I Corinthians 15:57-58, I Peter 1:3-5, and II Corinthi...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What is the closest experience you’ve had with death? What did that loss teach you about the reality of death? 2. As you observe the world around you, are there ways that you see Satan continue to minimize the threat or penalty of death? 3. Read Hebrews 2:14-15. Do your best to describe the effect on your mind and heart of knowing that in Christ death has been defe...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Last week I asked you, how often do you think about your death? Now let me ask you, how often do you think about heaven? When you do think about heaven are your thoughts vague and fuzzy or clear and distinct, shaped by biblical truth (like I Peter 1:4)? 2. Think about what Jesus actually accomplished in his resurrection. How closely do you identify what happened fo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How often do you think about the brevity of your life and the fact of your own death? When you do think about the reality of dying is it with morbid, negative thoughts or thoughts marked by the confidence and peace gained through biblical truth? 2. What particular truths from God’s word regarding death are especially precious to you? Are there truths you know in yo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Of the three characteristics of God highlighted in I Thessalonians 5:23-24 which do you have the deepest personal grasp of? Which one means the most to you? For which do you have the least developed appreciation? 2. Do you feel any temptation personally to “take advantage” of your justification by allowing some pattern of sin to continue in your life? What warnings...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. The definition of prophecy used was "telling something the Spirit spontaneously brings to mind." What do you think of that definition? How is it similar or different from what you've thought/experienced? 2. There are two ditches of poorly approaching prophecies: being overly cautious or overly consumed. Neither are best. If you did lean towards one ditch, which one...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Of the three things we’re instructed to do in I Thessalonians 5:16-18—rejoice always, pray always, give thanks always—which feels the most challenging to you? Why do you think that is? 2. Do you feel like you truly understand, and then actually make, the connection between verses 9-10 and verses 16-18? What specifically about what God has done for you motivates you...