Series: Ezekiel
Title: The Glory Departs
Passage: Ezekiel 8-11
Speaker: Steve Howell (Senior Minister)
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Use the following questions and directions 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

• What story (movie or book) is the most emotionally devastating for you? What aspect of the story causes it to be so deep?
  

Growth—Thinking About Spiritual Matters

• Where is Ezekiel taken (see Ezekiel 8:1-3)?
  

• Why would the city of Jerusalem be significant to Ezekiel? Read Psalm 48:1-8 and explain what the city meant to God’s people.
  

• Can you still visit the place where you grew up? In what ways has it changed? Are these changes for the better or worse?
  

• How has Jerusalem changed for Ezekiel (read 8:3-18)?
  

• Consider our worship space at TCC. If it was as desecrated as the temple was for Ezekiel, how would you feel? Why?
  

• God judges the idolaters who had defiled His presence. How does he treat those who have been faithful (see Ezekiel 9:4-6)? What percentage do you think he would mark if God was doing the same for Tonganoxie today?
  

• How does this motivate you to share the gospel?
  

• Find a map of Old Testament Jerusalem. Use Ezekiel 9:3; 10:4; 10:18-19; and 11:22-23 to track the movement of God’s glory.
  

• When you feel absent from God, has He left you? What factors might prevent you from feeling His presence?
  

• Describe the impact of knowing that God indwells you as a Christian believer. What does the presence of the Holy Spirit change in your life? What would be different if He were gone?
  

Prayer – Taking Your Thoughts to God

• Thank God for His presence – for never leaving you alone!