Reflective Questions for Personal Devotion and Communal Fellowship –
Sermon – ‘Anthropology: What is an Adam and How Do You Make One?’
How have you generally understood the character / figure of Adam?
Has the story of Adam, and the traditional interpretation of that character, affected your understandin of your own humanness?
When someone asks you ‘who are you?’, what do you tell them?
In what ways, or by what metrics, do you tend to define yourself and others?
Where, when, and how do you encounter your ‘old self’? Where, when, and how do you encounter your ‘true self’?
What does it feel like to be brought further into your true self, and farther from your old self?
Have you ever felt echoes or reflections of ‘the eschatos Adam’ / the ‘united’ Pneumatikos body? Where have you seen them?
As with the congregant’s vision twenty-three years ago, what have you lost as your old self is cut away? What has remained?
Pastor Peter said: ‘God wants to free you from yourself and put you together as His own body— His body of relentless love and infinite joy”. Given the blinding effect of our own false selves, it can be difficult to remember this truth. What are ways that you can nurture and remember this with yourself? with your family? and with your communities?
Written by Ben Harney
For use by The Sanctuary and Relentless Love communities; to be paired with Pastor
Peter Hiett’s autumn sermon series; and used for solitary devotion or in small
groups/fellowship.