No Worries: the Consequence of a Kingdom Oriented Heart
- What do you worry about most? Why? How does it affect you?
- How do you see this text connected to last weeks (Matthew 6:19-24)? If you put both texts together how would you synthesize Jesus lesson down into a sentence?
- Talk about this statement: “Worry is practical atheism.”
- Read 1 Peter 5:1-7. What is the context for vs. 7? How does pride intersect with anxiety/worry? Why are we to “cast all our anxiety on him”? What does His care look like?
- What does it mean to “seek His kingdom”? What is necessary to do this in life?
- From vs. 34 we learn that trouble will befall us but we shouldn’t worry. Read Matthew 10:29. Sparrows only fall under the will of God. What does this mean? Does God cause all things? Is there a distinction to be made between God permitting/allowing and him provoking/causing? Talk about what that distinction looks like. What insight and comfort does this verse give us for or lives? Read John 16:33. How does the fact that Jesus “overcomes the world” impact you and your daily life? In what sense does he overcome the world?
- Pray for any anxieties within the group.
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