The Joshua House
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TJH value number three: 

Worship is not just a song we sing or a service we attend but a life we live in response to the beauty of God.  It is "taking our everyday, ordinary life–our sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life–and placing it before God as an offering" (Eugene Peterson’s The Message).  It is a calling to jettison the all too common sacred/secular divide of our culture today for a view that sees all of life and all that we do as opportunities for the sacred to exist by attributing worth to the one who is worthy.  Whether we are riding a wave in the ocean, walking in the forest or feeling the sun on our face we thank God as the one who spoke creation into existence.  It is recognizing that God has uniquely crafted us as His workmanship with talents, skills and spiritual gifts that were meant to be used in service to others as expressions and reflections of the image of God in which we were all formed.  As Creator, God is the most creative, inspiring us to be His image bearers to our world through its stewardship and through the culture forming activities of our day such as music, film, art and media.

Scriptures: Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 37:4; Ecclesiastes 8:15; John 4:23; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:31

I know I’m a little late but here are the discussion questions for Acts 3:

1. What does it mean for you to know that God is now always spiritually present to those who follow Jesus?
2. When it comes to the miraculous, do you consider yourself more a skeptic or believer?  Why?  How should that change for you?  I.e. Maybe you are too cynical about the miraculous or maybe you believe things too easily.
3. What is mean by the statement: Jesus cares more about the inner miraculous than the outer?  Examples?  Look at Matthew 12:33-39 and Luke 11:27-29.
4. Like Peter, how can we learn to recognize the work of Jesus in people’s lives?  I.e. become a spiritual tour guide/assistant.
5. (v.38) Why does Peter answer the desperate crowd by telling them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus?  How would you describe these two ideas in your own words?
6. (v.39) Why does Peter make sure to add his comment in verse 39?  What’s significant about "all"?  Have you ever been a spiritual snob before?  How?
   
7. (v.42-47) What are the characteristics of a community of Jesus-followers who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit?  (i.e. Learning…Life Together…Worship…Favour…)