Passage in Focus:  Acts 4:23-31

1.         Pastor Erick suggested this wasn’t the best title.  What might have been a better title for this passage and message?

2.         Where do you see evidence of a spiritual battle taking place?  How do you distinguish a spiritual battle from a physical or intellectual one?

3.         What is one area for you right now where it is challenging to know that God has things in his hand because of how messy things are?

4.         Describe a time where you feel you or someone you know used healthy boldness.  Feel free to also share a time when boldness was unhealthy.  What is the difference?

5.         What healing experience (physical, spiritual, relational, intellectual or psychological) have you experienced that drives your testimony of faith?

6.         Have you seen prayer that results in physical manifestations?  Discuss.

7.         The end of Acts 2 and the end of Acts 4 give a picture of powerful community in the Spirit.  What do you see in your church community that resembles that? 

8.         How do the stories of the Spirit in Acts make you feel?

9.         Anything else from the passage or message that you want to talk about?

10.   Spend time praying for the Spirit to guide each of you, your group, and the church.