VENTURE GROUP GUIDES
ICE BREAKER
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?
DISCUSSION
What comes to mind when you hear the question, what is the church?
READ
Acts 1:1-11
Consider letting multiple people read small potions of the passage.
SHARE
1.
Is there a way you’d locate yourself with respect to the Bible?
Is it above you like an authority? Below you like a foundation? In front of you like a guide? Behind or beside you as irrelevant? Unsure or something else?
2.
What does it mean to you that the Book of Acts invites us into the story of God?
3.
What do you believe about the resurrection of Jesus?
4.
How do you feel about the idea that the Holy Spirit changes us from observers to participants in the mission of God?
5.
Mission is why the church exists. What does this mean to you?
6.
How can you encourage one another to live by faith, share hope, and be known by love?