Home Group Questions- June 23

Date: June 23, 2024
Key Scriptures: Hebrews 11

Facilitator Questions:
Theme:  Can faith be seen?
Start thinking:  Ask a question to get your group thinking.
  • Read Hebrews 11:1. What does it mean that faith is the evidence, or substance, or conviction of things not seen?
  • What are the differences between natural and spiritual eyesight? How do we get spiritual eyesight?
  • Read the chapter. As you go through it, list the ways each of these heroes acted on the evidence, substance and conviction of their faith.
  • What would have been observable to other people? What can we see even now? How was God glorified?
  • According to verse 7, how did Noah’s faithful action condemn the world?
Start sharing:  Choose a question to create openness.
  • What is your reaction to the examples of these faithful men and women?
  • Reread verses 3 and 4. Faith gives us spiritual insight. It enables us to recognize what natural eyes and ears cannot perceive and prompts us to do things that speak a message to the world. How has your spiritual insight caused you to act in ways that seem unnatural and illogical to others?
  • In general, how does your life witness to others that you walk separately from the ways of this world? How can nonbelievers tell you follow Jesus?
Start praying:  Be bold and pray with power.
  • Thank Jesus for being the author and finisher of your faith and for giving you supernatural, spiritual eyesight.
  • Thank Him for calling you to follow Him, for giving you a new heart, and for giving you the courage and ability to reject the ways of this world.
  • Pray that He will purify you, so He can be worshiped and glorified more greatly in your life and that your faith will draw other people to Him.
Start doing:  Commit to a step and live it out this week.
  • Memorize and meditate on the meaning of 2 Corinthians 5:7: “for we walk by faith, not by sight.”
  • Every day, ask the Holy Spirit to lead you in practical ways that will demonstrate your faith to those around you. Be open to His encouragements, checks and warnings in your encounters with others.