Reflective Questions for Personal Devotion and Communal Fellowship –
Sermon – How Jesus Cleanses His Temple – John 2:12-25
What does ‘covenant’ mean to you? What covenants are you a part of?
How does the New Covenant affect the worldly covenants you are a part of?
How do you feel when someone breaks a covenant? What needs to happen when a covenant is broken?
What is it like to imagine Jesus’ anger at the money-changers in the Temple? Does it make sense?
What views and feelings do you have about the Old Covenant?
Put yourself in the sandals of a Pharisee. How would you feel about Jesus’ New Covenant?
What is distinct about the New Covenant, compared to other covenants that exist?
How does the New Covenant impact the way you form and maintain relationships, covenants, and bonds with others?
In a world complicated by competing forces, covenants, and politics what is a way that you can remind yourself of the covenant forged by the blood of the Lamb?
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.