TRIBE | Fellowship Of Suffering

Message Recap

It’s not just about what we accomplish but what we set into motion.

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[Revelation 7:9]

…there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.

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You haven’t yet achieved your empathy potential.

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[Philippians 3:10] 

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

[Philippians 3:10]

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

[Romans 8:17]

…we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

[Luke 22:57]

But Peter denied it. “Woman,” he said, “I don’t even know him!”

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The deepest level of empathy happens in the fellowship of suffering.

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[Galatians 2:20]

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me

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Discussion Questions

  • Where do you need to shift your focus from seeking to accomplish, to setting into motion?

  • Where do you need to grow in empathy?

  • Who in your circle do you need to join in the “fellowship of suffering”?

Amanda Majors