Discussion Questions from January 16th, 2011 AM Sermon

Yesterday morning I finished up the 3-part series called "Staying Saved in 2011" from Luke 21:5-38. You can watch or listen to the message here.

In the three messages, I offered 8 Actions for the believer to take in order to endure until the day of Christ's return. They are:

1. Replace temporal affections with eternal perspectives (vs. 5-6).

2. Aggressively and intentionally grow in your knowledge of and affections for Christ Jesus (vs.
7-8).

3. Assume that the world will continue in chaos and go from bad to worse (vs. 9-11).

4. Make a habit of intentionally putting yourself in a position where you are desperate for God to
bail you out (vs. 12-18).

5. Guard yourself from loving God-ordained institutions more than God Himself (vs. 16-24).

6. Evaluate where your ultimate hope lies and deliberately change course toward confident hope
in final redemption (vs. 25-33).

7. Intentionally immerse yourself in the eternal Words of God (vs. 33, 37-38).

8. Know yourself and aggressively, with discipline, position yourself to be walking in obedience
when Christ returns (vs. 34-36).


Some questions related to these:

1. Which of the 8 Actions mentioned do you most need to work on?

2. What will you intentionally and practically begin doing now?

3. Reread Luke 21:5-38. Why should believers be so diligent to pursue these actions? (List as many reasons as you can from the text).

4. Why is Luke 21 a gift to the church?

5. Read Matthew 24. What are the similarities between Matthew and Luke? What are the differences?

6. If you were to teach Luke 21:5-38, how would you teach it to a new believer? How might you teach this material at your family devotion time?