Summary: Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Pastor Richard Dahlstrom Discussion Questions by Pastor Nancy Eckardt When have you been limited by your external circumstances? What barriers, real or imagined, do you feel limited by at this point in your life? How are you responding to this limitation? What would you describe as indicators of a healthy church? How do you see this lived out in the local church we call Bethany? What external barriers are we experiencing at our church right now? How does our allegiance to Christ cause external pressure? What about the gospel threatens that which you hold dear? What is at stake at letting go of that which you hold dear? What about the gospel would make it worth it? When have you witnessed religious propriety getting in the way of true worship of Christ? When have you allowed religious propriety to keep you from being honest before God and/or your brothers and sisters in Christ? What is at stake in true confession? How can you create a safe place in your circle of community for true confession? In what areas of your life do you experience a sense of entitlement? In what ways does another’s sense of entitlement impact you or those you love? Read Galatians 3:27. What makes it difficult to see all of us clothed in Christ? What do you value that causes you to see us as something other than one in Christ? What role can you play in the church to help us as a church grow in our unity under Christ? What do you need to let go of? What do you need to embrace? Sunday’s Bulletin Watch
