Conversation Sunday Resources: A Waiting Community

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Questions for Discussion

• • Do you think waiting feels difficult? Why or why not?
  • What are some of the ways that our surrounding culture tries to speed up or eliminate waiting?
  • We view Advent as a season of waiting. Besides Christmas presents, what are we waiting for?
  • What do you think about the idea that churches are more about waiting than doing? What are we waiting for God to do?
  • What kind of “waiter” are you in your daily life?
  • Have you had big experiences of waiting? What did you learn about yourself in that experience?
  • Have you ever waited alongside others? What did that feel like – or what did that teach you?
  • Who has waited alongside you?
  • Where do waiting and your faith collide?
  • What are your holy expectations? How do you wait for those? Have you ever tried to force God’s hand?
  • What is getting in the way of your wait?
  • Where in your body do you feel longing?

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