Patterns of Disobedience

Judges

Connect

As your group meets together to share and reflect as a MEGA-group, invite the group to share reflections of times they experienced a cycle of disobedience in their lives or in someone’s life that they know.

Pray

Given that your group is larger tonight, it might be best to pray in groups that are smaller (like 3-4 people).  Encourage people to break up in smaller groups that size, and ask them to reflect on the measures together.  Have the groups share around whatever measures they see fit, and make sure that they take time to pray together:

Passionate: Where did I see God today?

Accepting: How am I building diverse relationships?

Invitational: Who am I connecting with God’s family?

Trusting: Where does God rank?

Active: How am I engaged with God’s work? 

Reflect

Share with one another any insights or questions that you had from Sunday’s sermon.  (I’m sorry if those involve the blood and guts of Ehud’s stabbing of King Eglon—see Judges 3 if you don’t remember).

Watch the Bible Project video—it helps to lay out the entire book of Judges for you.

What do you think we are intended to learn from the book of Judges?

Read together the final verse of Judges, 21:25:

“In those days there was no king in Israel; each person did what they thought to be right.”

-The word relativism is a big buzzword in philosophical circles.  Essentially it means, “I’ll do what’s good for me, you’ll do what’s good for you.”  How is Israel relativistic? 

-How is Judges a critique on our practice of Christianity?