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What Should Motivate Us?
Teaching Tool Text: 1 John 4:7-12
Weekend Message Text: Philippians 1:12-26
True Happiness
Sermon Date: March 13, 2011
LEADER NOTE. This is a discussion guide that is based on the same topic of the Sunday night sermon at Joshua House. It has been created to be a tool to help you teach and facilitate discussion in your group, not a rule to constrict you. So feel free to adapt is to fit your personality and discussion style as you see fit. You may want to add verses or skip questions as you adapt it to fit what your needs are. Make it your own.
SUNDAY NIGHT SYNOPSIS
On Sunday night, Jonathan Rue spoke about the Paul using his chains and his imprisonment to advance the Gospel message. He also discussed how some of Paul’s coworkers were advancing the gospel within impure motives, and that Paul didn’t care because the message of Jesus was being proclaimed. Rue concluded by emphasizing the priority that the Gospel takes over all other decisions and priorities in our lives.
TONIGHT’S BIG IDEA
In the Christian life, good and bad motivations exist. Sometimes Christians do good out of pure motives. Other times, Christians do good out of impure motives. Every Christian must know that the reason that Christians love one another, do good, and spread the Gospel of Jesus is because God first loved us. Christians need to know this truth if they want their witness to be more effective to friends, neighbors, relatives, and a non-believing world.
GETTING STARTED
I [Why are motivations important? ]
1. Motives. What indicators cause you to either trust or distrust someone’s motives?
2. What causes outsiders to distrust the motives of Christians?
3. Why are having pure intentions and motives important for Christians?
GETTING INTO THE TEXT .
READ VS: 1 John 4:7-12
1. What does it mean in verse 7, “love comes from God?”
2. What does it mean to be “born of God”?
3. Can someone describe the connection between true love and knowing God?
4. There are many definitions of love in the world. How does the writer define love?
5. What makes God’s definition of love unique and superior from other definitions we have learned?
6. What does the writer say our response should be in since God has shown his love to us?
7. Why must Christians respond by loving others?
8. Can someone explain the connection between receiving Jesus love and responding by showing God’s love to others? Why is there and must there be a connection in order for it to be considered true love?
9. How can these verses be used to motivate us to do good?
10. What shouldn’t motivate us to love and care about other people?
11. How can impure motivations keep Christians from being effective in their desire love and care about other people?
12. How is loving others with pure motives helpful for our relationship with God?
13. What are some ways that some of us can take personal inventory in our own time and reflect upon what motivates us to do good?
14. Give your advice to us. What are some practical ways to move forward in allowing your motivations to be purified by God?
Application. Take time to pray and consider what motivates you to do good and share Jesus. Ask God to give you his heart for people. Also, ask him what you might need to change in how you interact with others.
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