CrossWay Community Church | Bristol, WI

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What is the basic posture of your heart toward the leaders in our church? Are you limiting your “respect” and “esteem” to just some of them? 2. How aware are you of the spiritual condition of those around you? Do you feel like you know when someone is “idle”? When they are “fainthearted”? When they are “weak”? 3. Have you had an experience of being sinned against r...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. How much do you think about the second coming of Jesus? If you don’t think about it much, why is that? Is it that you’ve never been taught about it and being unaware of it hinders your eagerness for it? Is it that your heart has grown somewhat cold and you don’t feel the preciousness of Jesus and that seeing him will be the greatest thing? Is it that you are afraid...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Have you lost a loved one who was a Christian? How much are you allowing biblical truth about a Christian’s death to influence how you think and how you feel about that loss? 2. How often do you think about your own death? How much are you allowing biblical truth to influence how you think and how you feel about that?__________________________________________ Music...

Sermon Application Questions: Do you think about God primarily as a God of judgment or a God of mercy? What makes you think that? 2. Is there any danger in emphasizing the fact that God pardons our sin? What will protect us from that danger? 3. What is the sweetest part of Micah 7:18-20 for you? How might you keep that truth close in order to keep treasuring it? ___________________________________...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What are some ways that gratitude was stirred up in your life because of the sermon? 2. Are there particular ways that you think gratitude for God's mercy has been lacking in your life? 3. How can considering our similarities to the sailors, the people of Nineveh, and the Samaritan leper help us grow in gratitude? 4. What is one practical step you will take this we...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Read Exodus 34:5-7. Why is it important be continually reminded of both the mercy and justice of God? What happens if we neglect one or the other of these truths? 2. Do you find it easy or difficult to trust that God’s heart towards you is characterized by mercy, even when you fail to live for him? How does the book of Jonah help in this? 3. One sign of trouble in...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Who would you consider your enemy today? Think of people/groups that stand on the opposite side of the spectrum socially/politically/culturally/spiritually. What is your primary posture towards these "enemies"? 2. Share a time you've experienced the inclusive mercy of God giving you a second chance. 3. Share a time you've experienced God calling you to something th...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. God’s severe mercy landed Jonah in the belly of a fish. Why is it important that we have this category of severe mercy—where God in his mercy brings hurt and pain— for our own lives? 2. When have you experienced God’s saving mercy in your own life? 3. What happened to Jonah when he minimized his own sin and looked on the sins of other people and groups? Why is it s...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Jonah chapter 1 paints a picture of God as sovereign: in control of everything from a great storm to the casting of lots. Do you find the sovereignty of God more comforting or troubling? Why? 2. Jonah’s disobedience started when he elevated his nation above God in his priorities—he made his people an idol. Is there anything in your life that you find to be regularl...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Of the three instructions given in I Thessalonians 4:11—living quietly, minding your own affairs, and working with your hands—with which do you struggle the most? Where does that struggle show up for you and what does it look like? 2. Which of the two reasons for living like this that Paul names in verse 12 is most motivating for you? 3. What does all this have to...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. In what way is connecting God’s love for us to our love for one another helpful to how you think about loving others? 2. Think about some of the “one anothers” in the Bible: greet one another, welcome one another, encourage one another, serve one another, bear one another’s burdens. What opportunities might you have in the near future to show love to another believ...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What is one thing that stuck out to you from the sermon? 2. How can we as believers help each other pursue holy sexuality? 3. What are some ways that you can be tempted to see God’s guard rails as robbing you of joy rather than for your joy? (Grand Canyon Illustration) 4. What is one step that you need to take in your own life based on the sermon? (It could be new...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Is there a clear and purposeful connection in your mind between the instructions in God’s word and your living of your life? Is there a recent example of you reading something in your Bible and purposing to implement what you read into your life? If that hasn’t happened recently, why do you think that is? 2. How convinced are you of the goodness of God’s instructio...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Are you meaningfully and regularly engaged in shared life with other believers? What does that look like for you? If not, what steps might you take to pursue that? 2. Run through the six “effects” of shared life Paul names in I Thessalonians 3:6-13 (i.e., thanksgiving, joy, earnest prayer, longing to do others good, love, and holiness). Which of these do you feel a...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Are you currently experiencing any opposition for being a Christian? If yes, what does that look like? If no, why do you think that is? 2. Have you witnessed another Christian endure opposition recently? How has this affected you? 3. What helps you to get outside of the “small frame” of your circumstances and live within the “large frame” of God’s purposes? Are the...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Do you have reservations about the authority of God’s word? What are those reservations? How do you think they might be addressed? 2. Think about your daily and weekly habits of receiving the word of God. Do you feel like your current habits are allowing you to benefit fully from the “working of the word” (I Thess. 2:13) in your life? Is there some step you feel yo...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Would you say that you speak about Jesus freely with your family, neighbors, and coworkers? Why or why not? 2. Do you find yourself more often motivated by the desire to please God or the desire to please people (v. 4)? Can you think of a time recently that your desire to please God led you to disappoint someone? Can you think of a time when your desire to please p...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Are you a Christian? How do you know? 2. What does the idea of being “chosen” by God (v. 4) do in you? What do you think the Bible means that truth to do in you? 3. What evidences of genuine conversion (like what Paul names in v. 2) is it encouraging for you to see in your life? __________________________________________ Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 15...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Remember back to when you first really heard the gospel. How did you respond? 2. How long after responding to the gospel did you become a part of a local gathering of believers? What difference did that make in your living as a Christian? 3. Open your Bible to I Thessalonians and just glance over the section headings through the book. What part of I Thessalonians a...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Why does God have the writer of Psalm 105 rewrite the events he’s already had Moses record in the book of Exodus? What does the fact that this psalm was written 400 years after Exodus say about its usefulness for us living so many years after the Exodus? 2. How does that saying, “The way to build trust in a relationship is to make promises and keep them” strike you...

Music and Lyrics Used by Permission CCLI# 1595532 Sermon Application Questions: Think of the two main points from today’s message: 1. God means his presence with his people to be uninterrupted. 2. God means his presence to be known by his people. Reflect on each of these truths as they relate to your life, and then ask: What is the level of my confidence in and my experience of God’s presence? How...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Have you allowed any impatience to turn to unbelief and lead you into idolatry? What might that look like? 2. Are you currently perhaps experiencing some correction from God that you need to pay attention to? How would you know that it is God’s correction? 3. If there has been sin, have you responded to God in true repentance? What would true repentance look like?...

Sermon Application Questions: 1. What struck you most from these chapters of Exodus regarding God’s desire to dwell with his people? Was there something newly precious to you about Jesus and what he has done? 2. In his commentary on Exodus Alec Motyer says, ‘The Lord, for his part, was willing and ready to dwell in the midst of his people, but it was for them to decide if they wanted him to do so....

Sermon Application Questions: 1. Go back and read Exodus 19:4-6 especially noticing the order of things. Are you ever tempted to slip back into thinking that it is your obedience that is the grounds of your standing with God? What is the ground of your standing with God? Why is it tempting to slip back into a works-righteousness? Think about that question carefully because knowing the answer will...