Watch
Before you watch the episode, ask folks to offer up highlights from Episode Seven.
Discuss
To start your time of discussion, take a moment to read the Gospel passage at the heart of this episode: John 6:1-13.
1. Tell us about a moment when God took what little you had to offer and did something big with it. (Follow-up question: How did you push past your doubt that God could do anything all that big with what little you had to offer?)
2. Sometimes someone has ample gifts and charisma to offer—a seemingly endless supply of loaves and fish—but God is able to do very little with it. Why do you think that is?
3. Tell us about a need you see right now in your corner of the world, and then tell us what you have to offer that situation, even it feels like nothing more than a handful of “loaves and fish.”
4. While you must bring your “loaves and fish,” you must also bring along your faith. If "faith without works is dead,” it’s also true that works without faith never have a chance to live! What most challenges your faith in God’s power to do great things these days, and how do you fight for your faith to remain?
5. We’ve talked a lot about you as an individual and the “little” you have to offer that God can multiply; what about today’s church? Big things need to happen in the world. What are the “loaves and fish” the church needs to bring?
6. We can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore the final scene of the season: Simon walking on water. How does that speak to this episode as a whole? The season as a whole?
Pray
Heads up! You’ll see below that we’ve tweaked our usual two closing questions in light of your having arrived at the end of Season 3.
Closing Question #1
If you were to offer a word of thanks to God for something that comforted you most in this entire season, what would it be?
Closing Question #2
If you were to ask God’s help in living life in a new way in light of this entire season, how would you sum up this new way of life?
