May 3: Abraham in Canaan

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Getting Started:

• How are you holding up? Did something good happen this week? Something hard?

• What did you find most interesting about the sermon this week? The most helpful, eye-opening, or troubling?

• What is the hardest time you’ve ever had waiting for something?

Into the Bible

Read Exodus 24:12-18 and 32:1-6

• What was Moses’s mission during this episode? What was the mission of the Israelite people?

• Why did the Israelites ask Aaron to build them the Golden Calf? What was their weakness in this story?

• Who were the Israelites worshiping during this episode, according to 32:5? What was wrong with their worship?

• What should the Israelites have done instead? Why is that so hard?

Going Deeper

• What are you waiting for God to do?

• What does it look like to wait faithfully for God in your context? What would unfaithfulness look like?

• How can we encourage each other to wait faithfully like Abraham?