Pentecost Sunday 2026
Community Group Questions
1. In his sermon, Tim expressed that, in Jesus’ time, Jewish religion had become what all religions — all moral systems & political movements — tend to become over time: more an ideology than a sacred religion.
What’s it like for you to think about YOUR religion like this? How much do you think your experience of your faith is ideological? or influenced by ideology? How has that aspect of your faith experience evolved over time? How does it feel to consider that question?
2. Tim said, of the earliest Christians, that they didn’t abandon their religion, they just adapted it. What’s your response to the idea of adapting your religion?
What do you think drives the adaptation & evolution of religion? What do you know about what’s driven the adaptation and evolution of Christianity?
What do you think should drive it? Where might you see similar forces at work in today’s church? How and where is it adapting? How do you feel about it?
How do you see your role in the evolution of the church today?How do you see your role in that adaptation?
3. How do you respond to the idea that the church is like a walking wall? How do you understand the metaphor in regard, not only our deconstruction of the church’s past, but also to the reconstruction of the present?
In all likelihood, there will come a time when future Christians will work to deconstruct the things that, at present, we are building with the stones of our religion and church. How do you respond to the idea that the things we’re building together, in the largest sense, will be due for deconstruction by a future version of the church? What feelings arise for you? What thoughts? If there is resistance to that idea, share about it.
