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An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings!\xa0 The text is 1 Samuel 4:1b-5:1 from the New International Version of the Bible.\xa0 Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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DIVE IN QUESTIONS

1. How are you doing, really, right now? \xa0How about in your relationship with God? \xa0What distractions and weariness keeps you from engaging more deeply with God these days?

2. What has God done in your life or in the lives of those you know? \xa0Take some time to reflect on and remember those Ebenezer moments of faith where God\u2019s help was evident.

3. What was the mistake of the elders of Israel? \xa0By what sin of commission/omission did they break the covenant?

4. How did Israel come to this point of sliding so far away from their covenantal, \u201clove the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, and mind\u201d faith? \xa0(at least three answers!)

5. 1 Samuel 4, for those with the eyes to see it, also reveals that God is present and even active among his people. \xa0What are the signs of God\u2019s presence scattered throughout the narrative?

6. God is present among us as well. \xa0Where do you see him? \xa0And, how might you continue to practice habits of attention like prayer and Bible this week to better focus your eyes and ears to see Jesus?