Category: Who Is God

11/19/23 Who is God? God is Holy and Always Good

11/18/2023

ICEBREAKERS

What is the most morally good thing anyone has ever done for you or by someone that you can recall?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
GOD IS HOLY

Read Isaiah 6:1-6.
1. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “holy”?
2. How is holiness rooted in an understanding of God’s character? How is God’s holiness both good and dangerous at the same time?
3. What does this vision reveal about God’s intent toward and desire for people who are unclean like Isaiah?
4. How does this help you understand the importance of the kind of people God wants us to be?
Read Habakkuk 1:13. What does it mean that God's eyes are too pure to look upon evil?
Read 1 Peter 2:1-10.
1. How does the holiness of God and the church come together?
2. What does this reveal about God’s holiness?
3. How does this raise the bar of holiness for a follower of Jesus?
Read Job 13:13-19.
1. Why does Job say "though he slay me, yet will I hope in him."
2. What does Job's defense of God and his own innocence teach us about our own experience of suffering and its relationship to God?

PRAYER
Take time to ask everyone in your group if they have any prayer requests. Then for prayer, first take turns praising God for his holiness, for his moral purity, for his righteousness and justice, and for his goodness. Then pray for each other.

11/12/23 Who is God? God is Creator, Always Providing

11/14/2023

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ICEBREAKERS

What is the most amazing plant or animal you've ever seen or heard of?
What part of the human body or aspect of being human amazes you the most?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
GOD IS CREATOR

Read Nehemiah 9:1-6.
1. Remind each other the context of this story.
  Where are the people coming from before this moment?
  Exile in Babylon
  What happened in the books of Ezra-Nehemiah?
  Zerubbabel led some of the exiled back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Ezra the priest came later to dedicate the new temple and reestablish the Law of the LORD among the people. Nehemiah came later to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem. Zerubbabel is gone, Nehemiah is now governor, and he and Ezra gather the people to recommit themselves to the LORD.
2. What are the first two proclamations made in their prayer (Nehemiah 9:6)?
  God is LORD (YHWH) and God is Creator.
3. Why was it important that they proclaim these two things first?
4. What were the creation and god stories of the other cultures around them?
  Babylonian "Enuma Elish" (chaos, battle, humans created to be slaves)
  Canaanite "Baal Cycle" (war, gods of different aspects of nature)
  Egyptian Mythology (similar to above, humans created accidentally)
5. How is the biblical account of creation different from these other stories?
  Orderly, rational, clear, concise, realistic
The biblical account of creation presents God as not only the best explanation of creation in the ancient world; it also presents God as the best explanation for creation to the modern world, highlighting the amazing richness, depth, and inspiration of Genesis 1.
1. How does the "Big Bang" theory support divine creation?
2. In what ways does scientific discovery align with the biblical account of creation?
3. How does time dilation help explain that God created the universe in BOTH six literal 24-hour days and 14 billion years? Compare this with 2 Peter 3:8 which quotes Psalm 90:4. Also notice that this isn't the same as saying that the word "day" in Genesis 1 doesn't mean a 24-hour day.

GOD IS PROVIDER

Review Nehemiah 9:7-37. God didn't just create the universe, the earth, and humans, then step back and say "Good luck!" God stays connected to and involved with our lives as our Provider.
1. In what ways did God provide for the people of Israel over the years?
2. In what ways does God provide for us today?

PRAYER
Take time to ask everyone in your group if they have any prayer requests. Then for prayer, first take turns praising God for being our Creator, for the amazing nature of creation itself, for the beauty of the earth and the universe, and the amazing intricacies of human life. Thank God for providing for us all through the years, even when we feel like he's absent and when we rebel against him. Then pray for each other.

11/05/23 Who is God? Eternal Spirit, Always With You

11/5/2023

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ICEBREAKERS

If God were to had a favorite movie or TV show, what do you think it would be, and why?
If you could ask God one humorous, non-serious question, what would it be?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

What's a view of God that you had in your past that you no longer believe?
What are some views of God that some or even many people have that are not accurate?
What are some of the first things that come to your mind if you were to describe God to someone else? Why would you choose those things?
Read Exodus 3:1-14. What does it mean that God is the great "I AM"?
What has been helpful to you as you try to understand the Trinity?
Read Exodus 3:12, Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 1:23, and Matthew 28:20.
What's the significance to you of the fact that God is both eternal and promises to always be with us?

PRAYER
Take time to ask everyone in your group if they have any prayer requests. Then for prayer, first take turns praising God for being the great I AM, the eternal spirit, the self-existing God who is the Holy Trinity (three-in-one) yet who is also always with us. Then pray for each other.

11/19/23 Who is God? God is Holy and Always Good

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