The God We Can Know: Knowing the Great IAM

by Rev. Grant Armstrong
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Exodus 3:1-14 
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SERMON NOTES
I. God rarely uses burning bushes to make an introduction.
II. God will use familiar connections to help us understand who God is.
III. We are empowered by intimacy with our God.

FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION
- If you had to pick a different name, what would you be called?
- What would you do if a burning bush (or any inanimate object) began speaking to you as God?
- Do you think God wants to talk to us and tries to? What makes you say this?
- How does this story about God and Moses connect with Jesus?
- What do you think of God’s response of “I AM who I AM”? What is God saying?
- Do you think we learn more about God from this cryptic answer than we would have learned if the answer had just been “God”? Why? What is the difference between these two types of answers?
- What is God saying to you through today's scripture?