MISSION GROUP QUESTIONS FROM HEBREWS: CURIOUS ABOUT CHRIST SERIES - 14/6/09

Our God is a Consuming Fire: Hebrews 12:18-29 Steve Vaughan explained that the book of Hebrews is more like a preach than a letter. The author is pastoring a struggling house church full of doubts and troubles and for some reason his final point is focussed on 'God being a consuming fire' (12:29). Why?

Steve made three points:
1) God is a consuming fire because he is a God of love.
Do you agree with this?  Or can God be loving without his righteous anger?
When did you last think and meditate on the ‘fear of the Lord’. 

2) God is a consuming fire makes us live in light of eternity
One day God will get rid of everything bad on earth therefore only invest in things that last into eternity. 
How can you invest in the future?  What things in your life will survive into the future?

3) God is a consuming fire that causes true worship to rise up in us.
If we fully appreciate God’s saving work through Jesus, it fuels our worship. 
How can your mission group regularly remember the cost Jesus has paid to save us?
Discuss together the cost of God’s love.
Is your life of worship marked by awe, reverence and gratitude or is the Jesus you worship safe and cuddly?