Our Hope: Pray & Walk
Our Hope: Fully Applied
Colossians 3:18-4:1
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- Wives, how should you treat your husbands?
- Husbands, how should you treat your wives?
- Children, how should you treat your parents?
- Parents, how should you treat your kids?
- Employees, how should you treat your boss?
- Bosses, how should you treat your employees?
- What will stop you from doing this?
Our Hope: New Self
1. Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
2. According to God’s Word, what is your new identity?
3. How did you get your new identity?
4. Describe your new self?
5. Why do we put on the new self?
Are We Lukewarm?
Community Group Questions
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- In what ways are we like the church in Laodicea?
- How is rebuke and discipline a loving action?
- What is Jesus’ promise to those that “open the door”? What has that looked like in your life?
Our Hope: Old Self
Our Hope: Old Self
Colossians 3:1-11 pg. 984
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- Why is being “raised with Christ” so crucial for us to “seek the things that are above”?
- What is Christ calling you (specifically) to kill?
- What is he calling to put away?
Our Hope: Don’t Be Disqualified
Don’t Be Disqualified
Community Group Questions
Don’t be disqualified
Colossians 2:16-23 pg. 984
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- What are silly rules or expectations that you have heard of?
- Describe the sufficiency of Christ
- Why is his sufficiency so crucial for our faith?
- How might we be disqualified?
Boldly Proclaiming the Gospel
The gospel is foundational to everything we as Christians believe. So, what is the gospel?
What is my responsibility in sharing the gospel?
How do I find opportunity to share the gospel?
What things keep me from being bold in sharing the gospel?
Lastly, as I think about the people in my inner circle, what challenges do I face in sharing the gospel with them? Where can I go to find help with sharing the gospel?
God’s eyes but American glasses
Our Hope: the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ
Passage; Ephesians 2:8-10
Questions:
- Are you a “goal setter” and if so how to your goals impact you?
…Goals you accomplish?
…goals where you fail?
- Do you agree that the results of our labors belong to God?
- Do the results that belong to God relate only to spiritual things or to all the efforts of our lives?
- If it is true that the results of life’s labors belong to God how can we find fulfillment for our labors?
- Does this understanding change our lives? How? Examples?
Our Hope: Look to Jesus
Colossians 2:6-15 pg. 984
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- What does walking in Jesus Christ look like?
- How do we prevent ourselves from falling into empty belief?
- What is the result of a robust view of Jesus?
Bonus practical question: Have you been baptized?
Our Hope: Suffering
Our Hope: the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ
- Give a brief 2-3 minute summary of the message from Sunday, allowing others to fill in the blanks of what they heard.
- Describe Paul’s sufferings.
- What does suffering look like in your life?
- What is the purpose of suffering?