Series: Acts of Peter
Title: Growing Pains
Passage: Acts 6:1-7
Speaker: Ross Frisbie (Senior Minister)

Use the following questions based on today’s sermon as a starting point for spiritual discussions with your family or a small group of Christian friends this week.

Fellowship—Relationship with a Purpose

• Where do you prefer to serve? Would you rather be in front of people or behind the scenes? Why?

Growth—Thinking About Spiritual Matters

• Read Acts 6:1. What was the major complaint facing the early church? Does this sound like a serious issue or a trivial one? Explain your answer.
• What problems would the perception (or reality) of unfairness and disunity cause for the church? How have you seen similar situations play out in modern churches?
• Who needed to handle the situation in Acts 6? Why are godly leaders so important for a church?
• Read Acts 6:2-4. Which tasks were protected by the apostles’ solution? How would that protection help build the church?
• Which tasks were delegated by the apostles? How would that delegation help grow the church?
• What tasks today might be tasks that the leaders of the church could delegate? Why?
• Unity doesn’t just happen. What qualities (spiritual or otherwise) make unity possible? Explain your answer(s).
• Are you willing to do what is best for the church, even if it goes against your preferences? Are your leaders?

Prayer – Taking Your Thoughts to God

• Pray for sound leadership for Tonganoxie Christian Church that will move the church forward.
• Pray for our church to be unified among its people, multiplied in its membership, and magnified in its honor of Jesus.