Look Back
- What has stayed with you from last week?
- What examples of ‘creation care’ have you participated in this last week?
Conversation Starters
Ask some or all of the following questions:
- If you were emperor of the world, what one rule would you make that everyone had to follow to make the world a better place? (It can be as serious or silly as you like.)
- Who do you think is responsible for bringing about the renewal we’ve looked at over this course – God or the people of God? Can you identify why you think that?
Reading Scripture Together
Read the passage aloud together
Romans 8:18-26
- What is the Spirit highlighting to you today from this passage?
- What is the future hope that this passage talks about?
- How does it talk about life lived today?
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Discussion Questions
Discuss some of the following questions:
- In what small ways might you make some of the features of new creation a reality in the world around you? Be as specific as you feel able.
- What does groaning look like in the created world?
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Final video – Living Hope
What has struck you most about this course?
Response/Action
Ask some or all of the following questions:
- What causes your spirit to groan? What might ‘good groaning’ look like?
- If creation is waiting for God’s children to be revealed, what is it that God might want to reveal to the world through you?
- What could it look like for the first-fruits of new creation to break into your life, family, workplace, church, community?
Prayer ideas
Read all of Psalm 23 together.
Then, read verses 1-3 again. Invite people to pray out what you see of God’s character and his desire for creation in these verses.
Read verse 4. Invite people to name some of the dark valleys, these can be individual and global, include what you ‘groaned’ about earlier. Pray out or ask for where God is leading in that space.
Read verses 5-6. Ask God for a revelation of your anointing and a sense of his presence in the midst of all circumstances. Pray out the hope we have today.