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The DiscoveryExtra Discussion Guide

is a companion to Scripture Unions
Discovery daily Bible reading guide,
published quarterly. The Discussion Guide
features a set of questions based on a
topic arising from the previous weeks
readings. It enables a small group or
Sunday School class to share personal
insights from their readings in Gods
Word that week and then discuss the
topic, using the suggested questions.

Extra Discussion Guide

MAY 29

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w Prepare to read and discuss God's Word. That may include worship
and/or prayer.
w Share insights each has gained from the past week's readings.
w Read the passage chosen for your groups
discussion this week.

w Discuss the passage, using the discussion questions as a guide.

w Pray about what youve learned from Gods Word. You may use the
Prayer Journal on the inside back cover of the Discovery daily Bible
Reading Guide for personal prayer reminders.

week?

APRIL 3 APRIL 9

About Turn
READ: ACTS 26:1b18
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What are the elements of your story of redemption?

2. Do you have a story of struggle, doubt or sin before coming

to Jesus, or during your walk?

3. How has your life changed as a result of turning to Christ?

4. Do you have even a small part of Pauls vision for the power
of the gospel and our responsibility to take every opportunity
to share it?

5. What is Gods call on your life?

6. Where are there opportunities for you to share the gospel?

One for All

READ: ACTS 27:2744
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What are some ways God spoke to and through Paul?

2. Do you expect God to speak into your specific situations like

that?

3. In the previous verses, others did not listen to Paul? What do

you think changed in this passage?

4. What were some of the things God was calling for to ensure
divine deliverance?

6. Talk about some ways that this story is analogous to our faith
walk.

APRIL 10 APRIL 16

5. In what ways did the soldiers, sailors and centurion demonstrate faith?

APRIL 17 APRIL 23

Just Watch Out

READ: EZEKIEL 3:1627
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. In your own words, what is God saying to Ezekiel?

2. Where is the responsibility for the watchman and for the

hearer? Say more about this.

3. Do you identify yourself as the one God is speaking through

or the hearer? Why is this so?

4. Are you faithfully speaking where God is calling you to speak?

Share a specific situation.

5. Do you feel the sense of responsibility for your part? Do you

feel a weight of responsibility for what is not your part?

6. It cost Ezekiel to speak truth. Are you prepared to suffer? Talk

about why you are or whats holding you back.

Raising the Dead

READ: EZEKIEL 37:114
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What does Ezekiel observe in verses 1 and 2? What does it

mean to him?

2. How do you think he is processing what he is seeing?

3. What are your insights concerning Gods question and

Ezekiels reply in verse 3?

4. Where do you see wide spread destruction, personally or in

the world? On an honest level, do you believe there is hope?

5. How does God move to bring change? What is the relevance

of this?
APRIL 24 APRIL 30

6. How does Ezekiel respond and what does this mean in your
life?

MAY 1 MAY 7

With Unveiled Faces

READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 3:718
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What is the glory (goodness, righteousness, holiness) of the

law?

2. In what way did something good bring death (Rom. 7:10-14)?

3. Why could the law itself never change us? Is there any way in
which it can help us toward that which can?

4. What are the difference between the old covenant and the
new?

5. What do you observe about Moses actions (Exod. 34:29-35)?

What might have motivated him?

6. Contrast what we are called to throughout this passage and

why.

Multiply By Faith
READ: 1 KINGS 19:121
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What was the womans dilemma and what did she do about
it?

2. Observe verse 2. What is the relevance of Elishas response?

3. In what ways does God respond to us similarly? Give examples

from your experience.

4. Elisha says to ask all the neighbors and not for just a few
jars. What is a spiritual parallel?

5. Talk about the interplay of Elishas role, the widow's role and
Gods role.
MAY 8 MAY 14

6. What do you find most encouraging and most challenging

about this story?

MAY 15 MAY 21

A Godless People
READ: 2 KINGS 17:2441
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. Why was the king deporting and intermingling the people?

2. Do you see satan using this strategy with the church? How is
it working?

3. What do you think of the kings actions in verse 27? What is

right and wrong about it?

4. In what ways are we being asks to get along with the culture
that involves compromise?

5. What is the difference in attitude between true worship and

that pictured?

6. How do these things apply to your life? Be honest and pray for
one another.

A Beautiful Confidence
READ: 2 KINGS 19:119
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What did Hezekiah do in this crisis? What was behind each

action?

2. How do you respond in a moment of crisis? Give examples.

3. Do you expect God to speak clearly? How do you expect God

to direct you?

4. When have you faced reality telling you your faith is unreasonable (1011)?

5. Make observations about the scene in verse 14. Have you ever
taken similar action in a time of need?
MAY 22 MAY 28

6. What is Hezekiahs perspective of what he faces and the God

he is crying out to (1719)?

MAY 29 JUNE 4

God of Grace
READ: LUKE 7:110
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. Why did the elders think Jesus should help the centurion?

2. What was the centurions evaluation of himself?

3. If not his own merit, on what basis was the centurion seeking
help?

4. Comparing the elders and the centurion, how do you

approach God? Give examples (maybe sometimes it is one,
sometimes the other).

5. Describe the centurions perspective of Jesus and the natural

order. Does this challenges you, and if so, how?

6. Compare the basis of the elders commendation of the

centurion and Jesus.

God of Love
READ: LUKE 7:3650
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. How did Simon approach Jesus? What actions and words do

you notice?

2. Observe the actions of the woman.

3. What was the difference of the heart attitudes?

4. Was it Simons debt that was smaller or his awareness?

5. Do you have a fresh understanding of the depth of Gods forgiveness to you? Talk more about this.
JUNE 5 JUNE 11

6. What might it look like in your life to pour out an offering like
this woman?

JUNE 12 JUNE 18

Unlimited Resources
READ: LUKE 9:1017
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. Do you take time to withdrawal and rest with Jesus (10b)?

2. Having just returned from their ministry journey (6,10), how

do you think the disciples felt about this turn of plans?

3. Are you open to offer God time you had set aside for rest or
other purposes?

4. How do you discern if God is calling you to do so or not?

5. How does Jesus respond to the need (13)? How is this relevant
to our live?

6. What is God calling you to that is beyond your natural resources?

Idling in Gods Presence

READ: LUKE 10:3842
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. What do you observe about Martha and her interactions with

Jesus?

2. In what ways do you relate to the way Martha is approaching

the Lord?

3. Talk about the differences you see between Martha and Mary.

4. What is driving each of these women?

5. Why does Jesus say is the one thing needed? Why do you
think this is so?
JUNE 19 JUNE 25

6. If others observed your life, what would they say is your one
thing?

JUNE 26 JUNE 30

Gods Decree
READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:122
My Insights: What did you learn from Gods Word this past week?

1. How do you respond to Jeremiah saying this destruction is

coming from God?

2. Read Deut. 30:19. Who is ultimately responsible for this destruction?

3. Make observation about how Jeremiah is relating to the Lord

throughout these verses.

4. Are you able to express yourself to God as freely as Jeremiah?

When have you needed to?

5. Why is Jeremiah telling the people to cry out to the God who
has brought destruction (18-19)?

6. Talk about the interplay of Gods judgment and mercy.

Notes

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