Discussion Questions

Discuss how progressive nearness and progressive estrangement helps us stay connected to the realities of heaven and hell.
Compare and contrast your understanding of discipline from the perspectives of your family of origin and the Biblical view of discipline serving to prevent judgment.
Discuss what it means that God’s covenant faithfulness is accessed by ongoing repentance.
How can you help one another keep your eyes on eternity? Phrased differently, how can you encourage your brothers and sisters in Christ to live by God’s mercy, continue repenting and reinforce hardships as loving, forming and shaping discipline?

Prayer Points

Praise God for the grace and mercy we’ve received as his children.
Pray that the Holy Spirit would remind us of God’s mercy and help us live a life of continual repentance.
Pray that Sound City would be filled with people who speak the truth in love to all those around us so that progressive nearness to God would become their reality.