You Are the Body

Discussion Questions:

1) Was there anything from the sermon or the passage that stuck out to you?

2) Two people can experience the same situation truthfully and still perceive it completely differently, like two ears hearing one sound. When have you been in a conflict where you later realized the other person was seeing something real that you couldn't see?

3) When life feels scarce or anxious, we tend to protect and love "our people" first, which is how cliques formed in the Corinthian church. Where are you tempted to love only the people you already like and call that faithfulness?

4) The disciples waited for the Spirit at Pentecost rather than launching out on their own strength and logistics. Where in your life are you serving, or avoiding serving, in your own power instead of depending on God's?

5) God often appoints us to people we would never choose, so that when breakthrough comes the credit goes to Jesus. Who is a difficult person in your life right now, and how would it change your posture toward them to see them as placed there by God?

6) Belonging to the body is where it starts, but the body only works when each part gives itself away in love, even in hidden ways no one applauds. What is one concrete, maybe unseen, way you could use what God has given you to serve someone this week?