SCRIPTURE: 1 Samuel 10:1b-2 & 1 Peter 5:6-10

YOU CAN ALSO READ KENNY’S MANUSCRIPT FOR THIS SERMON HERE!
REFLECTION/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. What does “care” mean to you? What sense of the word (receiving, extending, feeling) do you think about first?

2. In the Old Testament, care is compassionate, reflecting a fear that something might be lost. Have you felt this before?

3. In the New Testament, care is more closely related to worry and anxiety. Have you felt this way before?

4. What can we learn from Peter’s insistence that you can “cast your cares upon” God, “because He cares for” you? What is the relationship between accepting worry and caring, as God models it?

5. We often “feel love” for others… but that doesn’t mean we are always willing to listen to their worries or anxieties! Who can you do a better job of listening to this week?

6. Although it is good to care for others by accepting their worries… you can’t hold onto them forever, either! Kenny suggested we think of ourselves as “conduits of God’s care”: what do you think this means? How can we do this?

7. In your life, what have you learned about receiving care?

8. What have you learned about extending care?

9. What have you learned about feeling care for others, for your community, or even for the world more broadly?