Grab a coffee & use these questions to explore Sunday's message with a friend or with your connection group.
November 23, 2025 // Different - Let It Go (but not the song from Frozen)
1. Can you think of a time when you hurt or offended someone and then asked them to forgive you? What happened?
2. How about a time when someone hurt or offended you? What happened?
2. Talk about this statement from the message: People that follow Jesus ought to be willing to forgive others, because they realize how much God has forgiven them.
3. When we hang on to anger, “The darkness laughs as the wound destroys”. Or as we read in the Bible: ”And ‘don’t sin by letting anger control you.’ Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26-27 (NLT) What do you think about that?
4. Revisit these Bible verses from the message:
“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT) “Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen”. Amos 5:21-24 (ESV)
What do you think about the idea that if we hang on to anger & unforgiveness and refuse to love people, then our prayers “turn to noise”?
5. Russ mentioned that he once heard a Christian say “I’ll never forgive this person”, and how that’s different than saying “I’m not sure I can ever forgive this person”. Have you ever felt like you weren’t willing to forgive or could not forgive someone?
6. We might have a right to be angry, but we can choose to let go of that right. And our inspiration for doing that is because Jesus gave up his “rights”:
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges (his “rights”), he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8 (NLT)
He left his rights - will you leave yours? Who do you need to forgive in your life?
For an easy way to read it wherever you go, check out the Bible under the Helpful Stuff tab on the TMP app.
1. Can you think of a time when you hurt or offended someone and then asked them to forgive you? What happened?
2. How about a time when someone hurt or offended you? What happened?
2. Talk about this statement from the message: People that follow Jesus ought to be willing to forgive others, because they realize how much God has forgiven them.
3. When we hang on to anger, “The darkness laughs as the wound destroys”. Or as we read in the Bible: ”And ‘don’t sin by letting anger control you.’ Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26-27 (NLT) What do you think about that?
4. Revisit these Bible verses from the message:
“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT) “Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen”. Amos 5:21-24 (ESV)
What do you think about the idea that if we hang on to anger & unforgiveness and refuse to love people, then our prayers “turn to noise”?
5. Russ mentioned that he once heard a Christian say “I’ll never forgive this person”, and how that’s different than saying “I’m not sure I can ever forgive this person”. Have you ever felt like you weren’t willing to forgive or could not forgive someone?
6. We might have a right to be angry, but we can choose to let go of that right. And our inspiration for doing that is because Jesus gave up his “rights”:
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges (his “rights”), he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8 (NLT)
He left his rights - will you leave yours? Who do you need to forgive in your life?
For an easy way to read it wherever you go, check out the Bible under the Helpful Stuff tab on the TMP app.