Point One: Make it your Goal to Live a Quiet Life

Point Two: Minding your Own Business

Point Three: Working With our Hands

Discussion Questions:

Watch the past message, then choose questions to get your group thinking and create openness.

  1. What was something that stood out to you from this past Sunday’s message? Share what you learned and how it will impact your life.

  2. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12. Paul wants the Thessalonian church to live blamelessly and please God. Why is pleasing God a good basis for Christian ethics? How has this desire changed your choices or lifestyle?

  3. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8. Paul gives the basis for Christian ethics and morality. What motivates a Christian to live by God’s principles for sexuality? How would you define this holiness to which God has called us?

  4. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10. How does God help our love to grow more and more? The word for love here is “agape,” which is the love God has for us. How important are feelings in this kind of love? If this love is not based on feelings, how does it grow? What changes will you make in your life because of Paul’s challenge in these verses?

  5. How can you show love to others during special times? What can you do for someone who is pregnant, getting married, has a newborn, is sick, or has experienced a death in the family?

  6. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12. What should a Christian aspire to? What are the three commands that Paul gives in these verses? How do these commands fit with today's societal values?

  7. Read 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Proverbs 20:3; 1 Timothy 5:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:11. Explain why Paul mentioned "mind your own business?"

  8. How can we live quietly while still sharing the Gospel?

  9. How can you represent Christ well in the way you care for others in the weeks ahead?