Turning Points: RECAP

This weekend we took a look back at the different ways people changed direction when they encountered Jesus. (You can find detailed notes for each teaching conversation in the previous posts on this blog.) We also spent some time talking about what we learned and/or found ourselves wondering about on this 7 week journey. Below is a list of the questions we provided our discussion groups. Feel free to use these on your own or with some friends. And, as always, feel free to use the comments feature to share your perspective.

REFLECT:

• Of the people whose stories we’ve heard in the last 7 weeks, whom do you relate the most to and why?

• Whose journey do you relate the least to and why?

• Whose story is most inspiring to you? Comforting to you?

• What common threads or themes did you notice in these stories about how people change direction with God?

• Each of the turning points we’ve studied involved not just a good moment or experience with God- but the invitation to keep on living in a new way. Which do you think is harder- making a decision to seek after God or choosing to continue on afterwards?

• What part(s) does God seem to play in our Turning Points?

• What part(s) do we play in our own Turning Points?

• What (if anything) have the last 7 weeks taught us about the role we might be asked to play in the lives of other people as they approach and move through Turning Points?

• What questions did this series of teaching conversations raise for you? What have you wondered or thought more about over the last 7 weeks?

• What questions did this series answer for you? What are you taking with you from these teachings?

• Describe a turning point in your relationship with God.

• Talk about your most recent turning point.

• Where are you at now? Approaching a turning point? In the middle of one? Recently though one? Something else?