1st Nov Sermon Discussion - "Dead Man Walking"

Scripture Reference: John 11:38-44

Ice-Breaker:
To start today’s cell meeting, we like to play a game called, “Guess the Murderer”. This is how we play the game:

Step 1: Have everyone sit in a circle

Step 2: Bow our heads and close our eyes and the cell leader will walk behind everyone in circle to choose the “murderer” by tapping on someone’s head without anyone knowing whom he has chosen

Step 3: Everyone can open their eyes now and just talk and joke and have fun normally while the “murderer” tries to kill the rest of you one by one by winking at you without anyone noticing….

Step 4: If someone winks at you, you must make a loud noise as though you are in pain being killed by someone. After you “die”, you remain in the circle as before but you cannot tell anyone who murdered you.

Step 5: At any time, anyone who is not murdered can guess who the murderer is. But if he guesses wrongly, he “dies” too.

Step 6: The murderer wins if he can “kill” the last 2nd last person in the circle.

(NOTE: Cell leader, you can play this game a couple of rounds depending on the time that you have…)

I hope you have fun playing this game… being dead after you are “murdered”… :)

Let us now discuss Pastor Melvyn’s Sermon entitled, “Dead Man Walking”

Scripture Passage: John 11:38-44 (Cell Leaders can get the members to role play this passage as an introduction to the discussion)

Introductory Questions:
- What was the “Hopeless Situation” in this story?
- How did Lazarus “come alive” or “ break free” ?

The Question of Today’s Message is: How can we live in True Freedom?

1. Remove Hopelessness – Walk in Faith
Are there situations around you that you feel hopeless about ? Have you given up praying or believing something can happen to change the situation ? Share with one another & minister to each other…

2. Reject Bad Habits & Bondages – Wake Up to Freedom
Are there Bad Habits that you are holding on to? Are you caught in any bondage that you would like to share with us so that we can pray for you?

Conclusion:
The only way that we can truly be set free & live in Freedom is to WALK in FAITH. Only by walking in Faith can we overcome the struggles that we face which make us feel that we are living in the “prisons” of our minds, in the “jails” of our lives… We need to WAKE UP from our “tombs” that tries to make us think that we are like “Dead Man Walking”…

Dear friends, let’s ask God to impart a NEW FAITH unto us so that we can live in TRUE FREEDOM…