If you did not get the chance to come out this last week you can download the talk from the last week on our website.
Here are some questions that might help unpack the topic a little bit.
1) Can you relate to the tension that is sometimes present in the way we talk about the Love and Peace of God on one hand, and the Judgment of God on the other hand? In what ways do you think we over-emphasize or under-emphasize either God's Peace or God's judgment?
2) We talked about having glimpses in our life of the Shalom of God. Those moments when everything seems to be the way it was intended to be. When are some times and places in your life when you feel like you get these glimpses of Shalom?
3) How do we as followers of Christ really offer Peace to those we come across?
4) In what ways do you see yourself, or people of faith in general, lean towards judging instead of offering peace? What are some times and places where you have seen Christians take the job of judging as there own? What are some times and places in which you have seen some choose a message of Shalom when it would be much easier to judge?
5) How do you think the message "the Kingdom of God is Near" can simultaneously be a message of Peace/Hope and a message of Judgment? What does this mean practically for you in the way you live out your faith?
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