exile
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Describe a time when you felt like an outsider?
Describe a time when you felt like an outsider?
What comes to mind when you hear the word exile?
What comes to mind when you hear the word exile?
INTRO VERSE: Lamentations 5:1–5
INTRO VERSE: Lamentations 5:1–5
Background—This passage is part of a series of poetic prayers by the prophet Jeremiah about a time of exile, in which God’s people were taken from their homes and forced to live in a foreign land.
What are the emotions revealed in this Scripture passage?
What are the emotions revealed in this Scripture passage?
What thoughts or questions come to mind?
What thoughts or questions come to mind?
WATCH
WATCH
What are your initial thoughts from the video?
What are your initial thoughts from the video?
How does the video help us understand the passage we read in Lamentations?
How does the video help us understand the passage we read in Lamentations?
Does it raise any questions you would like to discuss or investigate more?
Does it raise any questions you would like to discuss or investigate more?
READ: John 18:36 and Hebrews 11:13–16
READ: John 18:36 and Hebrews 11:13–16
What stands out to you?
What stands out to you?
How does our citizenship to a different Kingdom explain the sense of longing we experience?
How does our citizenship to a different Kingdom explain the sense of longing we experience?
How does it add to what the video discussed?
How does it add to what the video discussed?
RESPOND
RESPOND
If you saw yourself as an exiled citizen of the Kingdom of God, how might that change how you live and treat others?
If you saw yourself as an exiled citizen of the Kingdom of God, how might that change how you live and treat others?
What is one thing you could apply?
What is one thing you could apply?
What would it look like to live this out in community?
What would it look like to live this out in community?
END VERSE: 1 Peter 1:1–7
END VERSE: 1 Peter 1:1–7
What does it mean that there is “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you?”
What does it mean that there is “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you?”
How do these verses give you hope?
How do these verses give you hope?