​This year’s Mexico mission team encountered a God who is greater than the challenges and limitations we face. Through five personal testimonies, interwoven with brief reflections from Scripture by Pastor Steve, we will see how God works in and through our weakness, uncertainty, and limitations.

​Discussion Questions: 

​1. The theme of this presentation was that God is bigger than the challenges, obstacles, and limitations we face. Which testimony or part of the presentation most helped you see that truth in a fresh way, and why?
​2. John’s testimony showed how God can be at work even when carefully made plans fall apart. How do you normally respond when circumstances suddenly move beyond your control? What would it look like to remain attentive to God’s presence in those moments?
3. Justin’s testimony emphasized that our fears, insecurities, and sense of inadequacy do not limit what God can do through us. What personal limitation are you most tempted to focus on when God is asking you to step out in faith
4. Emma’s testimony showed how discomfort can expose our sense of entitlement. How can gratitude help us see beyond the immediate discomfort or difficulty of our circumstances to what God may be doing in and through them?5. Jerry’s story about Victor illustrates Ephesians 3:20–21(God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.) Where in your life have you seen God do something that exceeded your expectations? Where are you currently having difficulty believing that God can do more than you can see?
6. Jerry described prayer not simply as asking God to do something, but as God inviting us to participate in what he is already doing. How might that understanding change the way you pray about the people, needs, and opportunities around you?
7. Rochella’s testimony showed how God’s comfort often comes to us through other believers and then flows through us to someone else. How have you experienced God’s comfort through another person? How might God now want to use that experience to help you comfort someone else?
​8. The Mexico team experienced church in one of its truest forms (people living, serving, suffering, praying, confessing, and carrying one another’s burdens together). What keeps us from experiencing that same depth of community in ordinary church life here in Chicago? What is one practical step you could take to experience church like this?

Discussion Questions: 

1. Every one of us functions as a "witness" for the people around us through our words, our tone, and even our silence. In what relationships do you give that testimony generously right now, and where do you tend to withhold it?
​2. Pastor Praise described watching a man he'd genuinely trusted disappear with the food, and then a crowd condemn him without ever asking a real question because the accuser had more standing with the group than he did. What did that story teach you about how easily a community's trust can substitute for actual truth? Where have you seen that same dynamic play out?
3. Pastor Praise argued that the Ninth Commandment was not just a "do not lie" as a flat rule. It’s also  an identity question underneath a behavior: "What kind of witness am I becoming?" How does that reframing change the way you think about a command you may have always assumed was fairly easy to keep?
4. Deuteronomy 19 applies the same penalty to a false witness that would have fallen on the person they falsely accused, meaning God's law treated speech with the same weight as physical harm. Why do you think Scripture takes words this seriously? Does our culture actually treat words that way, or do we tend to think of them as "just words”?
5. Pastor Praise said, "Words don't just describe reality; they create it." Have you ever watched someone's words actually shape how a person saw themselves, for better or worse? What makes it hard to speak life over someone in the exact moment your own insecurity is the thing getting triggered?
6. In the gym story, Praise was one sentence away from bearing false witness about Paul Cho’s own ability, in order to protect his own reputation  and chose instead to spot him and champion him. Has someone else's success ever felt like a threat to you? What did you actually do with that moment, and what would it have looked like to do champion them instead?
7. Some of us recognize ourselves as the one who has minimized or misrepresented someone else. Others recognize themselves on the receiving end of it (talked about, misjudged, falsely accused). Which one is more true of you this season, and what would it look like to bring that honestly to God?
8. Pastor Praise closed with, "Champion one another with your words"  including speaking life over the people who've actually hurt you. What would it look like for our group to practice this together, not just as an individual habit but as a group culture - Not merely avoiding gossip, but actively naming what is true and declaring God’s original design over one another, especially toward the people it’s hardest to speak life over?