Doors: The Door to Eternity

Selected Scriptures

Connect:

• Share how you have seen God in the Highs and Lows of your week.

Prayer:

Pray that God would lead your discussion time and bring fresh insight, conviction, and hope through your time together.

Review:

God often works through moments of transition — thresholds, turning points, and decisions that invite us to move from where we are into something new. Throughout Scripture, doors represent opportunity, invitation, and response. Some doors God opens. Some doors he closes. And some doors require us to choose whether we will step through. Together, these doors tell a story — not just of what God offers us someday, but of the life He desires for us now. This week, we looked at the critical choice of the ‘door to eternity’ in realizing that Jesus is the only way of salvation…

The Grand Tour of the message: Thinking back on what you heard this Sunday…

o What did you learn about God?

o What did you learn about people?

o What did you learn about yourself?

o What do you want to commit to putting into practice?

Reflection:

Personal Experience & Discussion:

• Share about a time where forgiveness was difficult for you, and yet you decided to forgive. What made forgiveness difficult, what changed when you acted on your choice to forgive?

• Reflective Discussion (Remember to look at the context of the verses as you are reading!):

  • It is possible to be a ‘good person’, consistent in religious rituals, compassionate, sincere, better-than-most… and still miss eternity with God in Heaven. Discuss the way our hearts and minds can be “sincere but wrong” in light of the following verses. (Gen 6:5, Judges 21:25, Prov 14:12, Jer 17:9, Is 59:2, Mark 7:21-23, James 1:22, John 14:6, Acts 4:12)

  • Discuss the significance of the resurrection in light of the following verses; Why does it matter that Jesus rose from the grave? (Acts 2:23-24, Matt 28:18-20, Rom 4:25, 1 Cor 15:14-17, Col 2:13-15, 1 Peter 1:3, Rev 1:18)

  • Jesus said, “I AM the door”. Discuss what it means to enter life “through Him” rather than just believing He existed and was a good/intelligent/moral man. (John 1:12 and 10:9-10, Rom 10:9,10, Luke 9:23, James 2:17, John 15:5, Matt 16:24-25)

  • After believing in Jesus, confessing Him as our Lord and Savior, we are literally made new in our spirits, born again. Discuss: What does it look like, feel like, behave like, speak like… if the life of Jesus is in us? (Matt 25:31-34, Gal 2:20, Col 3:1-4, 1 John 2:3-6, Rom 6:13, Rom 12:1,2)

Application:

We have the most important news anyone is ever going to hear. Commit to sharing that news with someone this week.

Prayer:

Spend some time this evening giving thanks to God for His indescribable gift of salvation through the life, death and resurrection of His Son, the only Door that leads to life.

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