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REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. How is the context of Habakkuk relevant to our current times? 2. Have you ever been like Habakkuk and felt that God was silent in the face of injustice or suffering? How did you respond? 3. Read Psalm 13 and compare and contrast it with Habakkuk 1:2-4. 4. What can Habakkuk’s approach to prayer teach us about how we can come to God with our doubts and questions?

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. Do regular rhythms of individual and corporate ever feel monotonous to you? Why is it important that we do these things faithfully? How have you heard God speak in these regular spiritual disciplines? 2. Listening carefully to God means listening in community. How have the people of God helped you to hear the voice of God? 3. Discuss some different ways that we can send pe...

REFELECTION QUESTIONS: 1. What are the idols in our city? Is your heart broken over the worship of these idols and the lostness of our city? 2. Paul went to the synagogues and the marketplace to engage the lost. What does this look like in our lives? What will you do this week to go to the lost? 3. What beliefs do your lost friends and family tend to hold? How can you grow to better understand and...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” What is the main thing for the Church? What things tend to distract us from the main thing? 2. Have doubts ever made you feel unqualified for the mission? How can seeing the doubts of the disciples and the grace of Jesus encourage you? 3. In what ways is Jesus’ authority the foundation of our mission? How should Je...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. What did Jesus mean when he called the church in Laodicea lukewarm? Have you ever been lukewarm in your Christian life? Have you ever been in a church that was lukewarm? 2. What caused Laodicea to be lukewarm (see v. 17)? How might we be in danger of this? 3. What does Jesus mean in verse 18? What does it practically look like for you to buy from Him? 4. How have you exper...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. How can a church or an individual Christian have the reputation of being alive, but really be dead? Is there anything we can do to see past a false reputation? 2. Jesus said that their works were incomplete in the sight of God. What do you think that means? What might that look like in your life? 3. What kinds of things does God use to help us to recognize our true state?...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. In what ways should the church be tolerant? In what ways should the church be intolerant? 2. Jesus commended the church in Thyatira because their latter works exceeded the first. What does this mean? In what areas of your walk with Christ have you grown? Where are you stagnant? 3. How should the church in Thyatira have responded to Jezebel? To those who were following her...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 1. Why does Jesus describe himself as the one who has the sharp two-edged sword? Why do we often think of God’s judgment first coming to the outside world? Why is it important to remember that judgment begins at the household o God? 2. How does opposition to Christianity look different in our culture than it did in Pergamum? Are there any similarities? 3. In what areas do you...

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 1. In what ways has suffering been a part of your story? Have times of suffering ever made you question your faith? Have you seen suffering be used to help strengthen your faith? 2. The church in Smyrna was poor and suffering but Jesus said they were rich What does this mean? Does anyone come to your mind when you hear this description? What should this mean for our lives? 3....

INTERSECTIONS is a FirstSF podcast series that discusses the merging of faith and life from different members of our FirstSF family.