Sermon Based Small Group Questions
The Table – The Power of the Table
Sermon Based Small Group Questions
Icebreaker: What were some of the regular meals on the menu in your house growing up? Who cooked and who cleaned up? Did you sit down together and eat? What is your best memory from family meal time and what is your worst memory?
Note to the Leader: Before you dive into the questions below. Take some time to ask your group what their impressions were from the message. Did they have questions? Did they write any highlights in their notes?
- Exodus 12:26 indicates that the children will ask what the ceremony means. What role do children play in our observance of the Lord’s Supper? Why did God include the children in the Passover?
- Read Exodus 12 and/or Luke 24 and rehearse that event in your mind. What did you hear, smell, taste, see and feel?
- Luke records no less than 10 meals that Jesus shared with people. Find one and discuss its spiritual and theological significance. (Remember Luke wrote Acts and the meal shared in Acts 2)
- What are other notable meals in Scripture? (Genesis 26:28-30; Exodus 18:12; Exodus 24:11; Joshua 9:12-15; II Samuel 3:20) You can use your concordance to find more. Contemplate their significance for the occasion.
- Passover was a meal of celebration. We are often somber in our observance of the Lord’s Supper. Should it be more of a celebration? Should it look more like a meal than tiny samples?
