Face to Face With Your Enemies
5/5/19
Message Notes for May 5, 2019
Series: Face to Face
Title: Face to Face with Your Enemies
Sit _____________.
An enemy is anyone who ________ our way, because we want it our way.
What does it look like to “ _________” with someone?
1. We_____________________ we have enemies.
2. We pray for our enemies
3. We acknowledge everyone is made in the _____________ of God.
4. We acknowledge that love comes from God.
5. We sit down with our enemies and _______ them.
6. Seek common ground where we can ___________them.
Who is your “enemy”? How will you seek reconciliation this week with them? What is your plan?
Key: Together, blocks, sit, acknowledge, image, hear, love
Family/Group Study Notes for Week of May 5, 2019
Series: Face to Face
Title: Face to Face with Your Enemies
- Looking at the definition of an enemy as anyone who opposes us or blocks us, how many enemies do you have? Why are they your enemy? Would you have thought of them as your enemy before this message? Why or why not?
- Read Matthew 5:21-26. How does this passage make you feel about what you think about people who disagree with you, who have blocked you or who you have disagreements with? Have you ever thought “you fool” about someone? What does this passage say will happen to you?
- How do we seek to change our hearts? Read 1 John 4:18-21. What does it say about how to grow your relationship with God? What does it mean to love someone but still disagree with them? How do you come a compromise, if it has to do with your spouse, workplace or other situation where you have to engage with them?
- What would it look like for you to sit down with an enemy and listen to them? What does it look like to truly listen to someone else?
- How does Jesus’ sacrifice help put in perspective how we treat those around us? Especially his call from the cross “Father forgive them, they know not what they do”? How can resolving conflict with your enemy help bring you closer to Christ?
- Who is one person you have as an enemy right now? Pray for them, but what is a plan you can do step by step to help resolve that situation?
