Say When part IV

This week we wrap up the series, Say When.

The thrust of the series will culminate this Sunday as we are faced with radical redistribution. As the messages have been designed to be at the same time practical and helpful, while very challenging- this is all the more true for you and your group to wrestle further with what we will actually do with the information. If taken seriously, what God calls us to in entering His Kingdom should be a nerve-wracking, life-altering thing. Our finances, possessions and resources are at the center of this altered life.

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Discussion Guide part IV

Thaw

• What's the most emotionally/psychologically rattled you can ever remember being?
  
• Do you have any "phobias"?
• What was your take on the message Sunday?
  
• Was there anything you were surprised by?
  
• Was there anything that you felt confused by?
  
• Was there anything you felt like God was stirring within you during or afterward?
  

Read

Luke 12:15 

• Respond to this Proverb.
  

Leader note: help the group drill down on this simple phrase of Jesus. Ask them to be specific in our modern context as to what He is asking us to "disbelieve".

Luke 19:1-10

• First thoughts? What jumps out at you?
• How does this view differ, magnify or broaden your view of words like saved and salvation?
• How did the others observing this exchange likely feel?
• What do you think Zaccheus would tell the average American right now about the Jesus He encountered?
• What do you think Zaccheus would tell this Life Group right now?

Luke 18:18-27

• First thoughts?
  
• What's the difference between feeling guilty and feeling what this young man felt?
  

Leader note: recall "perilupos" (intensely sorrowful and anxious and fearful to the point of deep emotional stress) from Sunday, the same feeling Jesus felt the night before He was to go through with the crucifixion, and what Herod felt as he saw that he must follow through on his promise and kill John the Baptist.

Apply

• Respond to the term "radical redistribution".
• What could you foresee happening if followers of Jesus lived the perpetual Jubilee?
• What are things we possess & pursue that we could help each other as a group to reassess?
  
• What's one step that can be taken this week?

Meditate!

Leader note: this may be a good exercise for your members to be with God and to let them dwell for a while on the invitation to Kingdom living. You may want to remind them of the concept of not only what Jesus asks us to believe, but what we are being challenged to disbelieve about our life as well. You may find that this will be the best part o your time together, so leave it as much time as you are able.

• Read Matthew 6:24-34, allowing yourself to hear not only what Jesus is saying in His context, but how it applies right now. Clothes may include every way we work to make people perceive us. Food and drink may be all the ways we nourish ourselves and create comfort for ourselves. Let God reveal to you where you can trust Him more, and how that will not only enrich your own faith, but how that will bring a radical redistribution of resource into the world- which has very mush to do with salvation.
  

Scripture for further reading

Leviticus 25:8-28

Deuteronomy 15:1-11

Isaiah 61:1-2