Read. Ephesians 2:11-22

Meet Each Other in the Text

  1. What is your favorite type of art? To see? to do?

  2. How many foreign countries have you visited? What is the strangest border crossing experience?

  3. Use google maps - what is the furthest you have been away from home?

  4. What is the most famous wall you have visited?

  5. Have you ever built a house? or built a structure?

Explore the Text

  1. Why are people without hope? (12)

  2. Where are people without hope? (13)

  3. What are the things that Jesus did to make us one? (14)

  4. What is the thing that Jesus preached? (17)

  5. Why does citizenship matter? (19)

  6. What is God trying to build?

Apply the Text

  1. Have you ever felt really far from God? What did you do?

  2. Why is it important that we be people of peace?

  3. What would be a “dividing wall of hostility” (14) in our world? How can we overcome it?

  4. Why does Chrisitnasty so often devolve into the “in” and the “out”?

  5. Pastor Kyle listed a number of things that people could do to build the “temple of the Holy Spirit.” Which step do you think you are on? Interested in doing?

STEP ONE: The basis of our community - built together (22)

  1. All people are created Equal, 

  2. All people are sinners, 

  3. Jesus died for all, 

  4. All people are adopted into one family, 

  5. God wants Peace for all people, 

  6. All people have equal access to God.

STEP TWO: The way of empathy (go to Pastor Kyle’s Sermon Notes on the Website for links to some specific examples).

  1. Read a book

  2. Watch a movie

  3. Age appropriate materials

  4. Explore a museum

  5. Pray for the world

  6. Pray through our town

STEP THREE: Direct relational engagement. 

  1. Worship with the bilingual service

  2. Support a minority owned business

  3. Invite someone to your home

  4. Host a foreign student

  5. Advocate

  6. Love Local

What is my next step?