MISSION GROUP QUESTIONS FROM JOHN: 7 WORDS & 7 SIGNS - 03/01/10

This week we looked at the third sign Jesus performs in John's Gospel - the healing at the Pool (John 5:1-9)

The man had three responses to Jesus that we can learn from.

1) Waiting for a Miracle (verse 6): The man had looked for God to heal him for 38 years. He was desperate.
What are you looking to Jesus for in 2010?
Are you believing God to bring breakthrough in your life and this city?
What are we waiting for as a church community?

2) Indecision (verse 7)
i) Too focussed on his own needs
ii) too concerned at the cost of discipleship
Perhaps the man knows that Jesus isn’t just asking about healing but also holiness. Look further on in the passage at verse 14
“Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
Watch your weariness doesn’t mean you value your life too much.
iii) too fixated on trying hard in his own strength
Are you in danger of approaching this year legalistically?  We must come to God with humility and seek his strength to live a godly, missional life.

3) Walking (verse 9)
Interestingly, the word Jesus uses for ‘get up’ is used in the NT to describe the resurrection. 
Here is part of the secret to Jesus’ work.  He brings new life, new creation into the present world. 

Do you believe God wants to work a miracle in your life.
Do you believe He wants to use you to help recreate and rescue this world and deal with injustice, pollution, sin, greed, disease, poverty, even death?

Practically:
Join and commit to a Mission Group
Take some time individually, as a family, and as a Mission Group to think about this year. Do it soon.

Here are some great questions to ask each other.

What is God saying to you for this year?
What does it really mean to live missionally?
How can you reach the people around you?
How can you can be a provocative witness at work or uni?
Are there certain things God wants you to be engaged with in your community?
What are the hindrances to reaching your mission field?
Who can you love around you?
How can you build a sense of community around you?
Who can you serve?
What can you receive?
What resources are at your disposal and what can you give?
Where could God’s resurrection power bring change and healing –in your life and in this city?