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Small Group Discussion Questions

May 24 - 30

Sermon Series: Grow Up

Week 4: Young Adults

Ice Breaker if Needed

What flavors would you include if you had to build a triple scoop ice cream cone?

Discussion Questions

1. What outlooks and attitudes separate a youth from a young adult? What has the young adult discovered about their identity and their way of approaching life’s challenges? How do young adults approach major decisions vs. youth? Think about a time in your life when you began to choose what you’d pick up and what you’d leave behind. How did you know what to do?

2. Is your walk with God about you or about Him? Which signals spiritual maturity, and why? Why might some believers think God will stop giving peace, provision, joy, gifts once they mature? What is the biggest challenge as you contemplate maturing spiritually?

3. Read Matthew 4:18-22. Who is being called and how? Read Matthew 16:24-28. What is the call and what is the sacrifice? Read Hebrews 3:1. Who shares in the heavenly calling? When a believer accepts they have a calling, what should they anticipate? How do we mature into our calling?

4. “Maturing in your call is rooted in your pursuit of Jesus.” What does this mean? What is the danger in elevating your calling above Jesus? How might that happen? How does Jesus help you stay rightly positioned to live out your call?

5. “Finding your call is always a partnership.” Share examples from Scripture of God sending those who answered His call. How has He planted passion and hunger to heed His call in your heart? Inventory, either in the past or right now, how God has given you specific nudges and opportunities to fulfill your call. Read Matthew 14:28:33. Whose idea was it to exit the boat? What happened next? What do you think Jesus thought about Peter’s boldness? How did He respond, even as Peter took his eye off Jesus?

6. “Maturing in your call will require self-sacrifice.’ Re-read Matthew 16:24-28 and then read Psalm 84:10. How does this passage from Psalm encourage you to pick up your cross?

7. Are you ready for difficulty and sacrifice? Why or why not? Why do people who step out into their call fall victim to extremes? For example, “serving yourself to death” might seem like what God wants. What does Jesus say about His yoke? Another extreme is to step out into a call, but then create boundaries that block effectiveness. What does it mean to die to yourself? Why does maturity mean understanding not only nuance, but growing more comfortable with breaking the rules you have made for your life? What rules are stopping you from growing?