DISCUSSION

1. From the sermon, what Scriptural passage(s) will you meditate on this week?

   For each passage:

2. What do you know of the passage’s context?
   a. Within the Biblical book
   b. Within the Bible as a whole
   c. Within the time and place it was written
   
   
3. What is happening in the passage
   a. Who is doing what to whom?
   b. And (based on the same Scripture) why?
   c. What questions (if any) do you have on what is revealed to us?
   
   
4. What might God be speaking to you through the passage?
   a. What aspect of the passage are you drawn to?
   b. Why are you drawn to it?
   c. How might this aspect of the passage speak to your current situation in life?
   d. What might the passage be calling for you to shift?

AN E1R1 REFLECTION

Based on John 14:26-31; 16:28-33

The peace that Jesus left His disciples was strange. 

It was based not on the absence of trouble, 
but on the knowledge that there will be trouble
on the knowledge that they will fail in the midst of that trouble;

but also, on the confidence that Jesus will be victorious
that His absence was only to be momentary
that He was going to His Father

for their sake 

His peace was not a promise for a change of circumstance
His peace was a promise of His presence

As we learn to receive His peace, then, may we long for His peace for others
may we long for the Prince of Peace to reign
here on earth