Small Group Notes for 2nd November 2025
N.B. Sermon can be heard via our website and YouTube channel and the Paper Service version is on our website.
Read and Reflect: Revelation 3:1-6
Questions:
- Jesus is presented to the church of Sardis as both the one holding the seven spirits and the seven stars.
- What does this mean?
- And, in what ways would this have inspired and challenged them?
- And in what ways does it inspire and challenge us?
- Jesus ‘knows’ about the church of Sardis and sees what they don’t see about themselves.
- What had the church failed to notice?
- What might God be calling us to notice as a church, group, or individuals?
- What does being awake, look like for us as Christians and our church?
- The church at Sardis were failing to live with Jesus as Lord of all, and therefore failing to declare him before their contemporaries, hence the comment in verse 6 about acknowledgement. Read Matthew 7:20-23 and Matthew 10:32-33.
- In what ways are we already, as a church and as individuals, declaring Christ as Saviour and Lord?
- In what ways, may we be able to do more?
- Jesus offers to acknowledge us by name before his Father – how encouraged can we be about this?
- In what ways are we already, as a church and as individuals, declaring Christ as Saviour and Lord?