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​Initiate

A video introduction using illustrations, personal stories, metaphors, or active learning examples to begin the discussion.

 

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​Interact

After the video, prompts are supplied for thinking and sharing with others personal perception and experience. This opening activity prompts participants to think about and relate to the topic, and to share with others. 

 

 

Consider a few reports concerning psychic abilities and mind reading.

• About 40% of people believe that some individuals have psychic powers.
• One in three people say they’ve had a moment they would call a “psychic experience.”
• Nearly half of all people (47%) think most psychics are not real and are just pretending.
• In the last 10 years, there's been a 3% increase in people going online for psychic advice.
• People are becoming more curious about intuition and how the mind and body are connected.

Read the statement below and share if you agree or disagree. Then explain why:

 

“AI can find patterns and make predictions from data, but it can’t feel or fully understand the depth of human experience.”

 

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Insight

The Bible discussion begins with a careful reading of the whole passage, either from your own Bibles, or from the provided images below.

Then participants are to ask:

1. What is going on in this passage of Scripture?
2. What are the key words and phrases? Highlight them.
3. Why do you think this passage is included in the Bible?
4. What does it contribute to our “knowing Christ” and “living in Christ”?

 

 

Download PDF of John 2:23-25

John 2:23–25 reveals Jesus' deep discernment. Though many believed in Him because of the signs He performed, Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew their hearts. Their faith was based on spectacle, not surrender. Knowing what Jesus knows, consider whether we seek Jesus for who He is, or only for what He can do for us.

Jesus' ability to see into people's motives is evident throughout the Gospels, as seen in Nathanael's honesty, the Samaritan woman's thirst for truth, Judas's hidden betrayal, and Peter's future denial. Each moment reveals Jesus not just reading behavior but also revealing hearts.

His knowledge of us is personal and complete, like Psalm 139 declares: God knows our every thought and word before we speak. Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13:12 that one day we will know fully, even as we are “fully known,” and calls believers to be “transformed” rather than be “conformed” in Romans 12:1-2.  

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​Insight Out

A parting video clip with a personal invitation to apply the message to “knowing Christ” and “living in Christ” in the coming week.