Feb
15
Text: John 17:6-19 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Who is Jesus specifically praying for? Why is this important?
2. What is Jesus specially praying for in verses 6-19?
3. What does it mean to be “sanctified” by the Father, as Jesus prayed in verse 17?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.”
John 17:6 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.6.esv
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Feb
7
Text: John 17:1-5 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What does Jesus’ prayer to the Father reveal about himself? About His Church?
2. Explain what “The Hour” resembled when Jesus said “The hour has come”?
3. How does Jesus describe eternal life in this passage?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
John 17:3 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.3.esv
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Jan
31
Text: John 16:16-33 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Are you currently wrestling with fear? What? Why? Share with your group.
2. How does this passage bring comfort and peace to the child of God? Discuss.
3. Explain the quote from the sermon that “suffering will lead to life”.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.””
John 16:33 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.16.33.esv
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Jan
17
Text: John 15:18-27 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What does Jesus mean when he says ““If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” In John 15:18-19 ESV? Explain.
2. Do you have non Christian friends in which you minister to on a regular basis? Share.
3. What does it mean practically to be in the world, but not of the world pertaining to Christ? Share, explain, and discuss.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation:
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”
John 15:26-27 ESV
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Jan
10
Text: John 15:1-17 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What spiritual applications can be made with Christ being the vine, us being the branches, and the Father being the vine dresser? Share and discuss.
2. What does it practically mean to “abide” in Christ? Are you currently abiding in Christ? Share.
3. Some individuals have inappropriately used this passage to support the incorrect teaching that salvation can be lost. Why is this passage not a support text for the teaching that people can lose their salvation. Share, explain, and support.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
John 15:4, 16 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.15.4,16.esv
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Jan
4
Text: John 14:15-31 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How is the Spirit a “Helper” to believers? In other words, discuss the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.
2. What was Jesus referring to in vs 23 and 24 when He said that if anyone loved him, they would “keep His word”? Explain and discuss.
3. Are you currently in a state of dedicated love and reliance upon the Spirt in your walk? Share.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
John 14:27 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.14.27.esv
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Dec
6
Text: Various [see sermon notes] (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Explain and discuss the idea and implications of Gods “Goodness”
2. Explain and discuss the idea and implications of Gods “Holiness”
3. Explain and discuss the idea and implications of Gods “Righteousness”
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.””
Matthew 2:2 ESV
http://bible.com/59/mat.2.2.esv
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Nov
22
Text:John 14:12-14 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How are you continuing the work of Christ through your life? In other words, how are you advancing the gospel and kingdom of God through your daily work/life? (See Gospel Sharing Application Question)
2. How is it that the Church will do even greater things than Christ during the time between Chris’s first and second coming? (See vs. 12)
3. Are you content with how God is using you in your life? Share.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: ““Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.”
John 14:12 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.14.12.esv
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