Group Discussion Guide
Revelation, Part 6
This guide is designed to help your group create a space for genuine connection and conversation within your discussion time. Don't feel pressured to address every question each week. Instead, allow the Holy Spirit to guide you as you lead your group in uncovering what God intends to communicate during your time together.
This guide comprises three sections: Loving, Learning, and Living. Each section aims to steer your conversation towards meaningful discussions about spiritual growth as individuals and as members of the body of Christ.
This guide comprises three sections: Loving, Learning, and Living. Each section aims to steer your conversation towards meaningful discussions about spiritual growth as individuals and as members of the body of Christ.
LOVING
First moments together as a group to connect and pray (approx. 10-15 min).
Open with prayer and invite God to be part of your conversation and relationship.
- How have you seen God at work in your life since the last time we met?
- What has been one high and one low since the last time we met?
- How did you do with living out what we talked about last time we met?
Open with prayer and invite God to be part of your conversation and relationship.
LEARNING
The majority of the group discussion is devoted to open dialogue, reflecting on God’s Word and its personal application to each of our lives (approx. 60-75 min).
Scripture References from Message: Revelation 19:11-16
Big Idea: The victory of King Jesus is the way of those who are His.
Scripture References from Message: Revelation 19:11-16
Big Idea: The victory of King Jesus is the way of those who are His.
When you hear words like victory, power, or winning, what images or ideas come to mind?
The message emphasized that Jesus wins as the Lamb who was slain, not as a conquering military ruler. What does that teach us about God’s definition of strength, leadership, and victory? How does this challenge how we view Jesus in our modern context?
The sword of Jesus comes from His mouth rather than His hand, symbolizing the power of truth and the gospel rather than violence or coercion. Also, the Church and the followers who make up the church are given power through their testimony of Jesus as the Lamb who was slain (Revelation 12). What does that teach us about how Christians are called to engage a broken world?
Where is God inviting you to respond with faithful witness, sacrificial love, or perseverance rather than control, fear, anger, or retaliation?
The early Christians receiving Revelation faced pressure to compromise their faith for comfort, acceptance, or security. What forms of compromise are followers of Jesus most tempted toward today, and how can we remain faithful witnesses in those spaces?
Pastor Brad noted that even martyrdom became a declaration that evil had already lost because Jesus conquered death itself (Revelation 12:11). How does belief in the resurrection change the way Christinas face suffering, loss, opposition, or fear?
The message emphasized that Jesus wins as the Lamb who was slain, not as a conquering military ruler. What does that teach us about God’s definition of strength, leadership, and victory? How does this challenge how we view Jesus in our modern context?
The sword of Jesus comes from His mouth rather than His hand, symbolizing the power of truth and the gospel rather than violence or coercion. Also, the Church and the followers who make up the church are given power through their testimony of Jesus as the Lamb who was slain (Revelation 12). What does that teach us about how Christians are called to engage a broken world?
Where is God inviting you to respond with faithful witness, sacrificial love, or perseverance rather than control, fear, anger, or retaliation?
The early Christians receiving Revelation faced pressure to compromise their faith for comfort, acceptance, or security. What forms of compromise are followers of Jesus most tempted toward today, and how can we remain faithful witnesses in those spaces?
Pastor Brad noted that even martyrdom became a declaration that evil had already lost because Jesus conquered death itself (Revelation 12:11). How does belief in the resurrection change the way Christinas face suffering, loss, opposition, or fear?
LIVING
The challenge for the week ahead is to grow in our faith and lovingly hold each other accountable through the community.
This week, identify one situation where your instinct is to fight for control, prove yourself right, retaliate, or protect your own interests. Instead, intentionally respond in the way of the Lamb - with humility, truth, sacrificial love, and faithful witness. Each day ask yourself: Am I pursuing victory the way the world defines it, or the way King Jesus demonstrated it through the cross?
This week, identify one situation where your instinct is to fight for control, prove yourself right, retaliate, or protect your own interests. Instead, intentionally respond in the way of the Lamb - with humility, truth, sacrificial love, and faithful witness. Each day ask yourself: Am I pursuing victory the way the world defines it, or the way King Jesus demonstrated it through the cross?