Community Group Resources

1. Have someone in your group give a brief recap of Sunday’s message, highlighting the primary Scripture points and the main idea of the message. If members of your group attend multiple campuses, be sure to share highlights of Sunday’s message from each campus.

2. How did this message strengthen and/or correct your previous ideas about suffering and future glory? Was there anything you heard for the first time or that caught your attention, challenged, or confused you? Did you learn anything new about God or yourself this week?

3. Does the idea of God calling us to suffer make you uncomfortable? Why?

4. If you are being honest with yourself, do you more often put your hope in what you have in this world or in the future glory God will give us? How can you keep yourself more eternity-minded?

5. What is a time when you needed the Spirit to help you in your prayer life?

6. What is a time where you got to see God using something hard in your life for the good of making you more Christlike?

7. How can we know that God will bring our salvation to completion? How does this change the way you live each and every day?

8. What action step do you need to take in response to this week’s message? How can your group hold you accountable to this step?

Action Step

1. Spend time in prayer this week giving your hardships or sufferings to the Lord. Ask Him to help you to trust that He is working all things together for good. Ask Him to make you more like Christ however those things turn out.

2. Read Revelation 21-22 this week. Take some time to write down what makes you look forward to the future glory that is coming in the New Creation.