“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him,  and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

1) What is the difference between the sheep and the goats?
2) Does the Scripture really mean we treat people like we would treat Jesus?
3) What is our responsibility to the “least of these”?
4) What went through your mind during our prayer walk?
5) Did God speak to you?

1) What gift or gifts do you feel you have?
2) Do you use them?
3) What gifts do you feel need to be fanned?
4) In the story of the rich young ruler, why didn’t Jesus go after him? (Luke 18:18-29)
5) What does the phrase “love from the inside out” mean to you?
6) Do we have to “Do” works to be a Christian? What does it mean when it says “faith without works is dead”
7) Can you think of someone who you could invite to Axiom? Why don’t you?

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins people commit are outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another.

Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.

1) When you hear “the two become one” what does that mean to you?
2) What does it mean that your body is the temple of the holy spirit?
3) Why might it be better to date in a group rather than alone?
4) What do you think courtship is?
5) How far is too far?
6) Why is it important to find out who you are before you look into being a couple?

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

1) Write or list 3 of your best qualities.
2) What are ways we hear negative self talk (magazines, tv, music stars, etc.) where we feel like we don’t measure up?
3) List 3 sources of places or people who build you up.
4) List 3 negative thoughts you feel about yourself that you need to get rid of.
5) Why is it important to think on things that build you or others up?
6) Why is it hurtful to dwell on the negative?

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

“This, then, is how you should pray:
” ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’

For if you forgive others when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

1) When praying, how does it change things knowing your talking to Papa?
2) Tell of a time God answered a prayer.
3) Tell of a time you feel like God ignored you. Why do you think you felt this way?
4) Do you feel like you can come to God at any time?
5) “On earth as it is in heaven”… what does this mean?
6) Why does God say we must forgive others, when coming to Him for forgiveness?
7) Do you see simplicity in the Lord’s Prayer?

“Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

“I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon.”

1) Why is it important to be humble before God?
2) How does the Holy Spirit help us in prayer?
3) What do you think of when you hear the phrase “waiting on God”?
4) As you look at your life what are you thankful for?
5) How does “broken before God” help us in our prayer life?
6) How do you put “pray without ceasing” into action? What does it look like?

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

2) Have you ever prayed for something and was glad God did not answer it?

3) Why do we pray in the name of Jesus?

4) Why is it important to have faith when we pray?

5) Should we pray that trials be removed from our life? Are trials or problems sometimes good?

6) Should we ask for something more than once?

7) How often should we pray?

8 ) Is it important to be specific?

9) Why does God seem to not answer certain prayers?

“What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.”

1) What does this story mean?
2) Why does Jesus refer to us as soil or earth?
3) Why is it important to grow as a Christian?
4) Have you ever led anyone to Christ? Tell us about it
5) How has your roots grown as a Christian?
6) What steps do you feel you could take in the next six months to better grow as a believer and to better share your faith?
7) How are we like secret agents?

Matthew 28:18-20

Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

1) How does God speak to you?

2) How do you know it’s the voice of God?

3) How was the woman living in darkness?

4) Tell me of a time in your life where you did not know what to do

5) How did you find an answer?

6) What questions do you have right now?

7) What are you doing to get the answers you need?