Life Group Study Questions for THE HOLY SPIRIT (6): Suddenly!

Acts 2:1-4a

1. Can you think of examples of something that happened suddenly, but which still required many other things to happen first?

2. Can you think of some things that had to happen in your life before you were prepared to ask Jesus to be your Savior?

3. Find the verses in Luke 24 and Acts 1 where Jesus foretold what would happen on the day of Pentecost.

4. Read John 16:7. How can it be true that it is better for Jesus to go away?

5. What was happening on Pentecost that may have been essential for the Holy Spirit to come?

6. How do we deal with the miraculous signs of Acts 2? Are we experiencing the same Holy Spirit if we do not experience the same signs? Why or why not?

7. From Acts 1:8, what is THE sign of being filled with the Holy Spirit?

8. What holds us back in sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ?

9. How, then, might we pray to overcome anything that is holding us back?

ACTS 2:1-4a

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit…