Bible Talk : By Brice Williams
Topic: Pride & Purpose
Topic Name: Am I a great nothing?
Opening Question: What would you say, is your single greatest achievement based on the amount of effort you placed into it. For example: Floyd Mayweather, 50-0 fighting record or Anne Frank for her dairy.
Verse: Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Questions about society
- 1 So what are achievements the world can teach us as children to strive after?
- 2 What would you say motivates established and mature adults today instead of treasures in heaven?
Verse: Mark 11:23 (NIV)
23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
Questions about close people or my experiences
1 What is a powerful moment you have seen someone close to you achieve but couldn’t have without belief they could?
2 What is something you want to accomplish, but need more faith or belief you can even do it to pull it off?
( insert plug for accountability & loving one another as a family )
Verse: Philippians 2:14-17 (NIV)
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you
Questions targeting confessions and openness
1 What are things in your life that can hold us personally back from being a “poured out drink offering?”
2 What do you personally believe has to happen in your life to reach the next level of shining in the world like stars?
Closing Statement: Astrophysicist and Christian book author Hugh Ross, had a succinct quote in: “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is.” He said: “Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.”
Challenge: That being said, I always like to end Bible Talk with a challenge. That challenge is, that you are not an accident; your being here tonight is purposeful and desired by the creator of the universe. What are you going to do, to step-up to the destiny He has placed in front of you? Ask the person who invited you out, or continue to study the Bible so that you can discover to the FULLEST EXTENT why you are an integral part of God’s plan for this universe.
…..and that’s Bible talk