Opening Statement
Life Group Leaders, please read the following Statement to set expectations for your Life Group.
“Welcome to Life Group! Our goal is to be a place where anyone can belong, believe, and become the people God created us to be.
As we discuss, let’s focus on what God is teaching us through His Word and how it applies to our personal lives. Sharing is encouraged, but you may pass on a question if you’d like. Please be mindful of time so everyone has a chance to share. I’ll do my best to guide the conversation.
Let’s open in prayer and ask God to be with us .”
Read Revelation 2-3
Reflect on these questions
Revelation 2-3 contains seven different descriptions of Jesus accompanying the address to each church. These descriptions reveal His power, victory, nature, and more. For example, they include: “the words of the first and the last, who died and came to life,” or “the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.”
Which one of these descriptions of Jesus is your favorite?
What do you think it means, or what does it reveal about Jesus?
Laodicea was located near two other cities - Hierapolis, known for its hot, healing springs, and Colossae, known for its cold, refreshing mountain water. Laodicea had to pipe in water from miles away through an aqueduct. By the time their water arrived, it was lukewarm and mineral-heavy. It was famously unpleasant to drink.
In Revelation 3:15–16, Jesus told the Laodicean church, “You are neither cold nor hot… because you are lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth.” He was using their water supply as an analogy for their spiritual condition - not spiritually refreshing or healing, but complacent, compromised, and ineffective.What do you think spiritual lukewarmness is? What might cause a believer to drift into that kind of condition?
Why is being spiritually lukewarm harmful or dangerous?
Respond with faith in action
The seven churches as a whole received commendation, correction, and comfort from Christ. Jesus’s words still speak to His followers today.
Which word of commendation or correction feels most relevant to your walk with God? How can you apply it to your life?
Which word of comfort is the greatest blessing to you?