Mar. 15 - Foreshadowing (Gn. 22:1-18)

Keep growing in your relationship with Jesus: Take the message with you into your week. Reflect on the Bible passage and sermon (posts Sun. afternoon), then use the ideas below to help you talk it over with your friends, coworkers, family, or Grow Group.

Icebreaker idea: It’s been said that trust is hard to gain and easy to lose. What’s one way to build trust?

A way to pray: Ask God to grow us in trusting Him, especially in the areas shared in the group discussion (see below). Pray that our own growth will help others in our lives to trust God, too, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

Talk It Over:

• True or False: “Every sin is an exercise in failing to trust God.” What are my reasons for answering as I did? How does Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son help me better understand what it looks like to trust God completely?

• Where in my life am I most struggling to trust God right now? How does remembering God’s provision of a ram – and ultimately of His own Son – as substitute sacrifices for sin help me to grow in trusting Him in this area, too?