Text: 1 Cor 11:17-34  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. List and discuss each of the 7 points listed in the Sermon on How the Lords Supper is to be Observed.
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 when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭11:24-26‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/1co.11.24-26.esv

Text: John 17:20-26  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How can you bring about unity amongst other Christians around you that are not a part of Emmaus? Furthermore, how are you bringing about unity with other Christians who have differing theological beliefs?
2. What are/is the defining factor(s) when unity must cease and division begin between two proclaiming Christians?
3. Discuss the following statement from the sermon, “Jesus divides, doctrine unites”.
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: “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭17:21‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.21.esv

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

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

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

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

Text: John 15:1-17  (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
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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

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