MEMBER GROUPS
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Ephesians 4:12
The following questions are for the use of our BBC Member Group meetings. For our large group gatherings, we review the passage that was just preached the Sunday prior and apply it to our lives that week (James 1:22-25).
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May 10, 2026
Read 1 Timothy 1:1-2 and then answer the following questions
1. What are you regularly “feeding on” during the week, and how is it shaping your spiritual health?
2. Paul says the church is “a pillar and buttress of the truth.” In what ways do you personally need to take more responsibility for helping our church love, guard, and live according to the truth?
3. When church life feels messy, complicated, or discouraging, where are you most tempted to look first: strategy, preferences, criticism, withdrawal, or the Word of God? Why?
4. True gospel ministry is grounded in God’s authority. How should that change the way you listen to sermons, receive correction, or respond to biblical commands?
5. Is there a particular command from God’s Word that you have been slow to obey, resistant toward, or tempted to soften? What would repentance and obedience look like this week?
6.“You want a pastor that issues commands—divine commands from the Word of God.” Why might we resist that kind of ministry, and why is it actually good for us?
7. Of the pressures Timothy faced—fear, conflict, false teaching, controversy, emotional strain, spiritual warfare, difficult people—which one helps you better understand what pastors often carry? How should that shape the way you pray for them?
8. Paul begins the letter not with strategy, but with “grace, mercy, and peace.” Where in your life or ministry do you need to depend less on your own strength and more on God’s provision?
9. Timothy was apparently weak, timid, young, and physically afflicted, yet God used him. What weakness in your life makes you feel unusable, and how does this passage encourage you?
10. God might use men as heralds, elders, or Timothys. For the men in the group: how should you begin praying about that? For everyone else: how can we encourage qualified men toward faithful service?
11. What is one concrete way you can apply this sermon before next Sunday—receiving the Word more humbly, praying for pastors, resisting controversy, depending on grace, serving despite weakness, or obeying a specific command?
Questions for Kids Ages 6–14
1. God’s Word is like healthy food for the church. What is one way you can “eat” God’s Word this week?
2. Timothy had a hard job, but God gave him grace, mercy, and peace. When something feels hard or scary for you, how can you ask God to help you?