1. Introduce yourself and share how you serve at your local church. What joys and challenges have you experienced in your position? 

2. How has God “S.H.A.P.E.”ed or is “S.H.A.P.E”ing you for/in your current ministry assignment? (S.H.A.P.E. stands for: Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences)

3. How much of Jesus’ love for His church factored into your sense of calling into ministry?

4. What kind of thoughts or ideas fill your mind/heart on Sunday mornings as you prepare to gather as a church? What rhythms help you be fully engaged with your church, especially on Sundays?

5. In a time where people seem to be increasingly disenfranchised with the church, what is the Lord saying to you so that you can be better equipped as a minister of God’s word?

6. Do you ever find yourself struggling to love the Lord’s church? If so, how do you recenter yourself to God’s love for His church?

7. What spiritual battles are confronting the church today? How are you being equipped AND equipping the saints to fight the good fight in the Lord? How much of Jesus’ love for His church factored into your sense of calling into ministry?

1. Do you have a sense of God's calling?  Please share.

2.  How do you feel when God calls you to do the impossible?

3.  What fears and insecurities keep you from obeying God's calling?

4.  How can you overcome these fears?

5.  Is there a vision that God has given you in terms of what is happening in our world today?

1. What is your understanding of postmodernism and how does it differ from modernism?  To put it differently, critique modernism and discuss how it paved the way for postmodernism.

2. What does placing culture at the center looks like?  How do you respond to a worldview that makes culture sovereign?  

3. Critique virtue signaling--an outcome of morality without facts--based more on feeling (i.e., selective moral outrage) than action.

4. Interact with this thought: While sex is biological, gender role are culturally conditioned with a few exceptions due to biology.

5. Respond to this statement: The most effective weapon we possess to confront the postmodern discourse is God's word. How do we do that in light of postmodernism's assault on the authorial intent and the stability of language.

6. Honestly discuss difficulties of being a believer in today's sociopolitical and cultural climate. What has been your experience?