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This lesson is designed to take approximately 90 minutes in lifegroup or discipleship settings.

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Start Here 👈

We are starting a new series as a church family called Living on Mission where we will explore how to live missionally! This month, we will follow Jesus and trace His purpose and message while He was on this earth.

God has been pursuing His people and all nations since the Old Testament. The story of living missionally did not just start with Jesus in the New Testament. In the next 4 weeks, we will be exploring how Jesus lived and how we can live like him. We want to strengthen ourselves as a church family to multiply Jesus’ gospel message and His way of living by learning from him and then living it out in our spheres of influence.

We are all called to multiply.

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🎉 CELEBRATE (35 mins)

• CELEBRATE ONE ANOTHER (15 mins)
  • Vision: Invite someone in your group to share the vision.
  • Icebreaker:
    • What do you love about the person of Jesus? (Let us count the ways…)
  • Check-Ins: life updates, praise reports, etc.
• ANNOUNCEMENTS epicentre.org/events (5 mins)
  • This is the central spot, where you can stay up to date with all events and announcements at our church!
• CELEBRATE GOD THROUGH WORSHIP (15 mins)
  • Take some time to encourage a member to prepare the worship space. This *guide* can help them plan the time: *Tips for Leading Worship at Lifegroup.*
  • If helpful, you can also pick from this worship list of Spotify playlists/Youtube songs.

❤️ ACCOUNTABILITY (5 mins)

• In twos or threes, take a few minutes to check in on how you're living life with God. Share, encourage, challenge, and pray for one another.
  • Who has been on your heart lately that God has called you to pray for? (a family member, someone who doesn’t know Jesus, co-worker, etc). How can we pray along with you for this person?

📖 LEARN IT (40 mins)

• SCRIPTURE DISCUSSION

  • Short Context & Notes:
    • This past Sunday, we were introduced to the passage in Luke 4:14-18. In this passage, Jesus laid out his purposes on who he was/is and why he came. He also explains to the hearers in the synagogue that his grace was for everyone including the ethne (nations). It was not a grace for Israel and fierce judgment for all others. Those listening to Jesus were waiting for God to liberate Israel from their enemies.  Instead they heard a very different message. That is why their reactions were violent toward Jesus. They did not understand that Jesus came to fulfill the theme of Israel’s own scriptures from Isaiah 61.

• Scripture Reference | Luke 4:14-30 (NIV)

  14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

  because he has anointed me

  to proclaim good news to the poor.

  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

  and recovery of sight for the blind,

  to set the oppressed free,

  19  to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” 24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

  QUESTIONS

1. What does this story teach us about who Jesus is, his character and what he does?
2. What do we learn about people including ourselves in this story?
3. What do you like or not like about this story?

🎯 LIVE IT (10 mins)

• RESPOND IN SMALL GROUPS
  • Break into groups of 2–3 for the following—
    1. Sit quietly for 1-2 minutes. Ask Father God: “Lord, what do you want me to know from your Word?” Write down what comes to mind.
       1. Example: “Bob, I want you to know…”
    2. What is your response to God? Write it down.
       1. Example: “Lord Jesus, I will…”
    3. Share with each other how you will apply God’s truth from this story in your life this week. What is a specific action or thing you will do? Share with each other your “I will” statement for this week.