Discussion questions for Life Groups based on the Sunday sermon.
(Updated weekly)
December 22, 2024
*** This guide intentionally has more questions than your group could reasonably discuss in one meeting. Feel free to pick and choose questions that best encourage, challenge, and instruct your particular participants.
1. What comfort does God’s immanence offer to you? Is there a specific event or issue that this has been specifically meaningful to you?
2. Knowing that God is intimately and actively involved in creation, what should our reaction be when trials come through His creation (i.e., floods, earthquakes, famine, fires etc.)? How do we relate that to friends, family and neighbors who may have gone through such a crisis?
3. Have you ever had a time where you felt totally alone? How does the immanence of God help us through those times?
4. Immanence is closely related to the omnipresence of God. How does knowing that affect our behavior, especially our secret or private behavior? How should it affect what we do when no one is looking? (i.e., what we watch on TV, what we look at on the internet, how we respond to people outside of the church environment, etcetera).
5. What are some ways you experience God’s immanence in creation that move you to praise Him? Is there something specific in creation that automatically makes you dwell on the wonder of God? For some this may be the night sky, a new born baby, a mountain vista view, or the wonder of the animal and insect world. What is yours?
6. Do you have a favorite verse to share with the group that reminds you of the comforting power of God’s immanence?
7. Christmas time is a wonderful time to reflect on God’s immanence. How does the incarnation of Christ speak to God’s intimate involvement with His creation?
8. God’s presence permeates all places, things, and time. Is that comforting? When you are mired in sin, does it change how you feel about that?
9. Can you run away from God? Can you hide from God? Why do we try? Does God’s immanence give you fear and trepidation, or boldness and confidence?
10. Many people believe God to be distant, cold, and uncaring. Why do they think that? Why is a personal relationship with your savior so important?
11. God’s relationship with His creation is intimate. God is aware of the smallest of details. Do you think anything in your life is too small to present to God?
12. God’s relationship with His creation is constant. What do you think would happen without God’s interaction and intervention.
13. How do you present yourself to God, knowing of his transcendence and immanence. Is there a balance between judge and savior that you consider when you pray?
