Mosaic Church | Discussion Guide: Three Things to Say to Jesus (2024)

Before We Get Started

For our discussion today, we will be using the sermon series discussion guides. If you would like to follow along you can access this discussion guide on the website at mosaicchurchaustin.com and then select “community group resources” in the menu options.

Prayer

Because the primary goal of our time together is to establish relationships and learn how to walk with one another in all that God has called us to be and do, we’d like to begin by praying for one another. So, does anyone have anything you’d like us to pray for or anything to share regarding how you’ve seen God moving in your life that we can celebrate together?

This Week’s Topic

The Gospel of the Kingdom

Jesus’s Kingdom, as He himself taught, is not of this world. While His Kingdom influences and transforms people and structures, fundamentally, it does not belong to an individual or ideology.Hisis the kingdom and the power and the glory, as he taught us to remember in prayer.

Today’s Topic

Three Things to Say to Jesus

Discussion Questions

Saying Yes

A.W. Tozer

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way

Many who understand themselves to be followers of Jesus, without hesitation, and apparently without thinking, embrace the ways and means of the culture as they go about their daily living “in Jesus’ name.”

What do you imagine went through Matthew’s mind when he left everything behind to follow Jesus?

Can you identify when you began following Jesus?

What have you said Yes to in order to be obedient to the call to follow Jesus?

Saying No

Beth Moore

Becoming a Christ-follower means becoming less and less attached to the world’s way of doing things. It means losing more and more of myself so there is more room for Jesus.

Diet Eman

There is a cost in following Jesus Christ, but there is a greater cost in not following Him.

Barbara Brown Taylor:

Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.

What choices or ways of being in the world have you had to relinquish to follow Jesus?

Why were the Pharisees angry with Jesus at Matthew’s house?

How has anger been part of your life as you’ve followed Jesus?

Saying Help

Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I’m not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

What does Hosea 6:6 teach us about God?

Why is it challenging to ask for help, forgiveness, or mercy?

How has God been a rescuer in your life?

Closing Thought

Joshua 1:7-9

Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

In your final moments together, read Johua 1:7-9 together aloud and then pray for one another.