RESOURCE: Adam Hamilton's "Prepare the Way for the Lord." eBooks and Kindle version can be purchased and accessed immediately via Cokesbury or Amazon.
Our study from last Wednesday, "God Has Heard Your Prayers," sparked great conversation in our Zoom gathering. As a follow-up here, we can continue the discussion. Here are some key points and questions to keep the conversation going:
- Scriptures: Malachi 3:1, Malachi 4:2, Malachi 4:5-6 Luke 1:5-17
- God hears our prayers, though God's way of answering them is often different that we sometimes prayed.
- How much comfort and encouragement do you think the Bible's stories about infertile couples offer to infertile couples today? Why? How does or how could our congregation minister to women and couples who want to have children but find themselves unable to have them?
- Why do you imagine Zechariah felt fear when he saw the angel (Luke 1:12)?
- "The miracles God works," writes Hamilton, "sometimes come in ways that are different from what he had imagined when we pray." What "miracles" in this sense can you point to, in your own or in others' experience?
- Why does Malachi say "the day of the Lord" will be "great and terrifying"? How do you react to the prophet's words?
- This Advent, what are you doing to prepare the of the Lord?
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