Small group questions.
Use these with your small group or on your own this week.
Connection
- What do you remember most from last week’s sermon?
- How did you hear God’s voice or sense His presence this past week?
- What are you looking forward to most in May?
Reflection
- Summarize this week’s sermon in one to three sentences. What was the main point of the message?
- What did the message say about you, God’s people or the world?
Application
- In your own words, what does it mean that “the Holy Spirit empowers contributors, not spectators”? Where are you most tempted to stay a spectator instead of stepping in?
- Read Acts 2:1–4 and 1 Corinthians 12:4–7. What do these passages teach about who receives the Spirit and why? How does that challenge the idea that only certain Christians are “gifted” or useful?
- The sermon highlights that God uses ordinary people to create an unstoppable movement. Where have you seen God use ordinary people (maybe even yourself) in unexpected ways? What does that do to your view of your own role?
- Read Acts 2:14–18 and 2 Timothy 1:7. How does the Holy Spirit produce boldness in believers? What’s one situation right now where you need Spirit-led boldness instead of fear?
- Read Acts 2:37–42 and James 1:22. The people didn’t just feel something, they responded and changed. What’s one concrete next step of obedience you sense God calling you to after this message?
