Discussion Questions from Sunday 24th June- the Wind and the Waves!

Questions for discussion (no particular order, pick three or four to discuss)

1.    Fear negates faith. Why is it so critical that the faith of his followers be strengthned?
    ref. Matthew13:58, James 1:5 - 8

2.    What do you think about Jesus’ verbal response to them? ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’

3.    How is this particular miracle a sign of the Kingdom of heaven?

4.    What do you think about Jesus’ methods of training?

5.    Read Romans 12:2 How relevant is this Scripture to the story?

6.    How does having faith the size of a mustard seed relate to this crisis?
    What might the outcome have been had the disciples exercised mustard seeds of faith in their predicament?

7.    The Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) reveals to us a God-in-community (Three in One). In Old Testament times people received the word of God when they gathered in tribes and as a nation, rather than as individuals. Jesus mentored his apprentices in groups of 12, 72, or in 2’s and 3’s, rather than as individuals.  How does this weigh up with the individualism of 21st Century Europe and the   West?

8.    Just as we put our money in the bank, we put our faith experiences in a faith memory bank. We can draw on these memories of God’s faithfulness to us at any time, to encourage our belief and trust. What difference would it make to DNA as a whole, if we created and kept individual faith memory banks, as opposed to developing and fostering a communal faith memory bank?
9.    In DNA what practical ways can we grow a communal faith memory bank, rather than individual ones, to encourage our faith and trust in God?