Weekly Teaching
Reflection
September 27th Reflection
Discussion Questions
What kind of people do you think God is forming in Leviticus 8–10? What words or images from the teaching or the text help you answer that question?
Leviticus 8:22–24. The blood is placed on the ear, thumb, and toe. The teaching connected these with hearing/obeying, doing, and going. What might it look like for your whole life to be offered to God in these three areas?
“Spirituality isn't about escaping ordinary life. It's about becoming awake to the sacredness of ordinary life.” Where in your ordinary life do you most need to become more attentive to God? What small practice could help you do that?
Leviticus 9:23–24. The glory of God appears “to all the people.” Why do you think it matters that the experience of God's presence is shared by the whole community and not just the priests?
What does it mean to say that a priest is someone who stands between “how things are” and “how things could be”? Who has been that kind of person for you? How did they help you imagine or become something different?
Leviticus 10:1–3. This is a difficult and unsettling story. What warning do you hear in it about leadership, responsibility, or the use of power? Where can the desire for influence, recognition, control, or authority become a temptation?
The teaching says, “God forms. Human beings fail. God restores. God continues forming.” Where have you experienced this pattern in your own life or in the life of a community? How does this change the way you think about failure?
1 Peter 2:9. The priestly calling is eventually extended to the whole people of God. What might it look like for Restoration to become a community where ordinary people aren't spectators but participants—people who embody the way of Jesus for one another and for the world?
For Practice This Week:
Choose one ordinary part of your life (a meal, conversation, commute, work, home, finances, phone use, or relationship) and intentionally practice bringing God's way into that space.
At your next gathering, share: What did you notice? What changed?
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Leviticus Series Practice
Read Leviticus slowly and ask a different question.
As we move through this series, don't worry about understanding every rule or finding an immediate application for every passage. Instead, each week ask:
“What kind of people is God forming?”
Then take a few minutes to consider:
What does this passage reveal about the character of God?
What kind of community is God forming?
What kind of person would I become if I practiced what this passage teaches?
The goal isn't to conquer Leviticus or check it off our Bible-reading list. The goal is to “hear the music and learn to dance with it.”
Practice: Read the assigned Leviticus passage each week with curiosity rather than defensiveness. Write down one thing you notice about God, one thing you notice about God's people, and one way God might be inviting you to become more like Jesus.
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