1.30.22 HUDDLE

Zach Below   -   January 30, 2022

INTRO QUESTION

  1. How did you first get connected with One Life or with your group?

 

  1. How long did it take you to connect at One Life? Was it difficult? Easy?

 

 

LESSON INTRO

This week we are heading back into the Identity Paradox and the book of Luke. We will look at Luke 12 and ask how it can help inform our concept of identity.

 

BIBLE ENGAGMENT – LUKE 12:35-40

35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

 

  1. What stands out from this text?

 

  1. What questions does it raise?

 

  1. What do you learn about Jesus (His practices, priorities, personality, etc)?

 

Pastor Bret pointed out that in this text we see one of the most powerful insights into who God is.

  1. Respond to the following quote . . . “The God we serve is not a tyrant sitting at a table demanding that we bring him stuff. He is a servant at his very nature.” Where is this supported in the text?

 

BIBLE ENGAGEMENT – Read Philippians 2:3-7, how does this inform our view of Jesus?

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

 

 

APPLICATION

  1. Do you think God has wired us to serve? What makes you say that?

 

  1. The central theme of our culture is, “do what makes you happy.” Yet, every year since 2011, the number of adults who have suicidal tendencies has gone up. Why do you think that is?

 

  1. If true life to the full is a life modeled after Jesus, what does it look like and how is it different than cultures ideas of how to achieve it?

 

 

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