Living in the Last Days

State College Access Church

Spring 2024 Life Group

Pastor Jonathan Srock

Overview

It’s no doubt we are living in the last days. Some people say we are living in the end of the last days. You hear often, “Jesus is coming back soon!” How do they know that? As we are waiting for Jesus’s return, what does God expect of each of us? The Bible gives us clear instructions to go by in the last days until Jesus rescues His Church from the ensuing judgment of the end times. In the meantime, what should we be doing? That’s what this life group is all about. We answer the questions of what to do and how to live in these last days.

Schedule

Sundays 12:30-2 PM

Date

Topic

February 18

Waiting for Jesus’s Return

February 25

Walking in Prophetic Times

March 3

Walking in Wisdom

March 10

Walking As Jesus’s Representative

March 17

Walking with Jesus and the Spirit

March 24

Walking in Unity and Fellowship

April 7

Walking with the Family of God Part 1

April 14

Walking with the Family of God Part 2

Agenda

5 minutes – Opening Prayer

45 minutes – Teaching

30 minutes – Discussion

10 minutes. – Application

More Details

Week 1 – Waiting for Jesus’s Return

Describing where we are in human history is not an easy task. We live in the last days in God has expectations for us. But what are they? What does it mean to wait for Jesus’s return? What’s a basic understanding of the last days and the end times?

Week 2 – Walking in Prophetic Times

The Bible has a lot of prophecy in it about the end times. How do we know when what we see in our newspapers and news programs is fulfillment of prophecy? Can prophecy be a distraction? How do we deal with differing views on the end times? What’s the correlation between prophecy and current events?

Week 3 – Walking in Wisdom

Jesus calls us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. How do we walk in wisdom as we have 1 foot in the world as inhabitants and Jesus calls us to a much greater purpose and destiny than the world?

Week 4 – Walking As Jesus’s Representative

The Bible calls us to be Jesus’s ambassadors and representatives on the earth. He prayed that He did not take us out of the world. How do we represent Jesus well? What does it mean to be an ambassador? How do we interact with the world? 

Week 5 – Walking with Jesus and the Spirit

A chief relationship we must foster and grow is our relationship with Jesus and the Spirit. But how do we do that? What are some tools we can use to draw close to God? How do we renew our minds and keep focused on Jesus in a world full of distractions? 

Week 6 – Walking in Unity and Fellowship

The world is full of division and hate. But you expect that from the world. The problem is that we face division in the Church. What does the Bible say about unity and fellowship with other believers? Is there a situation in which we must allow division or separate from other believers? How do you deal with false doctrines and false teachers? 

Week 7 – Walking with the Family of God Part 1

The New Testament gives plenty of conditions on how we live together as Christians. What are some of the ways the Bible calls us to operate with other Christians? How do we deal with sin in the Church? What are some other expectations on us? We will focus on Jesus’s teachings in the Gospels and the book of Acts.

Week 8 – Walking with the Family of God Part 2

The New Testament gives plenty of conditions on how we live together as Christians. What are some of the ways the Bible calls us to operate with other Christians? How do we deal with sin in the Church? What are some other expectations on us? We will focus on the epistles and what they tell us about God’s expectations for us.