II Thessalonians 3:1-18 Prayer, Work, Close (Waiting For Jesus)

1. In what ways have disorganized people sucked the life out of you?

 

 

 

2. How has learning the law of sowing and reaping improved your quality of life?

 

 

 

3. What are your highest life priorities? Who or what pulls you away from those?

 

 

 

4. Is there someone else’s business that you need to butt out of?

 

 

 

5. How are you creating beauty?




II Thessalonians 2:1-17 Standing Fast Against Apostasy (Waiting For Jesus)

1. Have you ever lost hope in your life? What helped?

 

 

 

2. What are some of the ways in which you see the Holy Spirit holding back evil today?

 

 

 

3. Why do Christians seem so prone to imitate the world?

 

 

 

4. Why do so many people choose to reject God and follow the path to death?

 

 

 

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2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 (Waiting for Jesus)

1. Why would persecuted people derive comfort from knowing about heaven and hell?

 

 

 

2. In what ways do you see the glory of God’s power in your life and in this world?

 

 

 

3. What do you wonder about concerning heaven? Concerning hell?

 

 

 

4. How does 2 Thessalonians 1 motivate you to share the gospel?

 

 

 

 




Thessalonians 5:12-28 Some Final Instructions

1. Who are the church leaders who have had a major impact on your life?

 

 

 

2. Who, other than the church staff members, have encouraged you?

 

 

 

3. What have you done in the church that made you feel like you were really making a difference to someone?

 

 

 

4. Who was the best storyteller you’ve ever known?

 

 

 

5. Who helped you keep moving when you were ready to give up? What did they say or do that helped?




I Thessalonians 5:1-11 Comfort of His Coming P2 (Waiting For Jesus)

1. What do you think makes people so interested in future predictions?

 

 

 

2. Why do so many people walk around in a fog, instead of being alert and aware?

 

 

 

3. Of faith, hope and love, which is the hardest for you?

 

 

 

4. What are you doing to try to encourage and build up others?

 

 

 

 




I Thessalonians 4:13-18 Comfort of His Coming P1 (Waiting For Jesus)

1. What is the hardest loss you’ve ever had to deal with in your life?

 

 

 

2. When you’ve mourned a loss you experienced, who or what helped?

 

 

 

3. What are some of the dumb things people have said to you in trying to comfort you?

 

 

 

4. How would you describe what comfort feels like?

 

 

 

 




I Thessalonians 4:1-12 A Healthy Life (Waiting For Jesus)

1. What led you to your understanding of your personal worth as a child, both good and bad?

 

 

 

2. Why do we try to shame people and throw stones at them when they sin? How is that counterproductive?

 

 

 

3. What noise do you need to calm down in your life?

 

 

 

4. Have you ever had an experience where your lack of significance was liberating?

 

 

 

 




I Thessalonians 3:1-13 Paul’s Concern For The Church (Waiting For Jesus)

1. When you get to heaven who are the first five people you’ll want to see?

 

 

 

2. Who would you give your life for today?

 

 

 

3. Who has hung in there for you the longest?

 

 

 

4. Who constitutes your “Us” circle, where you won’t give up on each other?

 

 

 

 




I Thessalonians 2:1-20 A Healthy Church Leader (Waiting For Jesus)

1. Have you ever been led astray by a narcissistic leader? What attracted you to them?

 

 

 

2. Who are the spiritual leaders who have inspired you and what was it about them that helped you?

 

 

 

3. Who are you trying to lead and inspire?

 

 

 

4. Who has been influenced by you who makes you proud?

 

 

 

 




Thessalonians 1:1-10 A Healthy Church (Waiting For Jesus)

1. Did you ever have misconceptions about the Lord’s return?

 

 

 

2. How often do you think about the Lord’s return?

 

 

 

3. In what ways have you served the Lord in the past or present?

 

 

 

4. In what ways do you spread the word about church and the Gospel?

 

 

 

5. What does waiting for Jesus look like for you?