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Michael and Ryan walk through John 3:1-15 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the textGuiding Questions:What barriers does Nicodemus have to belief?Jews like Nicodemus believed they were saved by their heritage, how is what Jesus said about being born again different from that?What is John trying to say about Jesus by recording him referencing Daniel 7:13-14?Read Numbers 21:4-9 as a group. John records Jesus allegorizing this narrative in 3:1-15, what do the following elements represent; snakes, stick, bronze serpent? What was Jesus trying to get Nicodemus to understand about his mission?What is essential to belief in Jesus?Big Idea:Believe in Jesus and have life.Application Questions: What barriers are in the way of you seeing Jesus as the “good” life? Where do you look for the “good” life? What’s something you used to look to for the “good” life but now you look to Jesus?What’s something right now that you’re willing to admit you’ve been looking to for the good life that is not Jesus? 

David and Michael walk through John 2:12-25 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the text.Questions from the Conversation:Why was Jesus mad about the individuals selling goods and exchanging money in the Temple?How does John connect Jesus’s actions to Old Testament Prophecy? Why is that an important aspect of Jesus’s character?How does Jesus’s cleansing of the temple foreshadow the way he will cleanse us?What’s the significance of Jesus’s comment about tearing down the temple and raising it back up?Big Idea:Jesus purifies our access to God. → both the things we put between us and God AND the things innately within us between us and God.Application:What is something in your life that has been getting in the way of time with Jesus? How can we help keep each other accountable as a group to seek the unhindered presence of God in our lives?

David and Michael walk through John 2:1-11 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the text.Questions from the ConversationNarrative Questions:In narrative, we’re always asking these 3 simple questions to get to the big idea.What happened? (summary & key points)Why here? (how it fits in John’s Gospel)What does the author want us to know/feel/do? Supplemental Questions:What did Jesus mean when he said, “My hour has not yet come”?What is significant about the wedding metaphor?In what way does this sign glorify Jesus? What are we supposed to know about Jesus as a result of this sign?Big Idea:Jesus is all we need → Links to messianic provision of wine and implication of the sign. Application:How do we know if we’re living in a way that we really believe Jesus is all we need? (Desperate/Dependent)When was a time in the last month that you were desperate and dependent on Jesus?What would it look like to be desperate and dependent on Jesus every day? What rhythms do you need in your life to consistently re

David and Michael walk through John 1:35-51 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the text.Questions from the Conversation:Summarize the narrative in your own words. (Try breaking it up into Day 1 and Day 2 v35-42 & v 43-51)What words, phrases, or ideas are repeated? How do they point to a main idea?What titles are used for Jesus in this text? What do they tell us about the identity of Jesus?How did Jesus invite people to follow him? How does he do that today?How does this story reinforce the point John is trying to make in this gospel?Invite your group to reflect, when were you first invited to come and see Jesus? How can you invite others to come & see Jesus?Who is one person this week you can invite to come and see? Pray together for the named individuals.

John 1:19-34(ESV)19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight[a] the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.29 The next day he saw Jesus comi

John 1:19-34(ESV)19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight[a] the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.29 The next day he saw Jesus comi

David and Michael walk through John 1:6-18 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the text.John 1:6-18 (ESV)6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, beca

David and Michael walk through John 1:1-5 to help you lead meaningful discussions about the text.John 1:1-5 (ESV)In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Questions from the Conversation:What do you think John is referencing in verse 1? How does that contribute to what John is trying to prove in his gospel? (See John 20:31 for author’s intent)What is John saying about Jesus when he refers to Him as light and life?Overall, what is John saying to his audience about who Jesus is? keep in mind John 20:31What does it mean to you that Jesus is the creator, the Word, life, light?If Jesus came to give us life to the full, (John 10:10) what is the “good” life Jesus wants us to live?How is the “good” life Jesus came to give us different than