Emotions: Gauge Not a Guide

Kyle Goen [Riverdale Campus Pastor]

1 Samuel 21

Sermon Discussion Questions – Week of Mar 1, 2020

Get to know me:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to generate responses that are self-revealing and informative. Feel free to ask all of these questions to your group or simply choose the one that best fits your group.

1. What is your greatest fear? Why do you think that is?

2. What is one way you tend to struggle with your emotions?  (anger, depression, anxiety, lack of patience with kids, etc)

3. When you find yourself feeling emotional in some way, how do you typically deal with it?

Into the Bible:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to draw group members into the Bible to discover truth from passages that were not the primary text for the weekend message.

Read Philippians 4:4-7

1. What can we learn from this passage about how to best handle our emotions?

2. What do you think verse 5 means?

3. How can the peace of God guard our hearts and minds? 

Application:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to apply the main points from the weekend message.

1. What are some ways you can start the process of becoming more emotionally healthy? Should you consider something like counseling, support group, or even just a men’s or women’s group?

2. Who in your life can you go to when you are struggling emotionally that will give you wise, Godly support?

3. Why is it so important for God to become the most important person for us to lean on as we go through our emotional challenges? How can you let him into your struggles and trust him more with your life?