Luke 2:8-20 Our Church and the Good News 17/01/2010

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Church Isn’t For Us
Are there ways that a consumerist attitude has crept into your view of church? How do you react when there is music/a talk/activities that you don’t like? Why is this?

How can we find the balance between what is a reasonable level of sacrifice and what is ridiculous?

The Good News
What do you understand the phrase “Good News” to mean? If you had to explain to someone why Jesus is “Good News” how would you do it?

How has God been good news to you recently? Can you think of something in the last week, month or year? If you can’t, why not? How could you rediscover that God is good news? What could you be doing to see how good God is to you?

Pray and keep your eyes open for opportunities to be some form of good news to someone else this week.

Invest and Invite
Who’s on your radar as someone who hasn’t discovered that God is passionately in love with them? What are you doing to help them towards that discovery? How do you spend time with them? How do you incarnate (put flesh and blood on) the good news for them? How could you do these things better?

What could you invite them to? If there’s nothing, what could you start (big or small) that would be enjoyable and allow you to invite them so you can spend time with them?

Going Cross-Cultural
How could you help the good news go to those people who you don’t immediately have a connection with?

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