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Application Questions 1. How does Jesus'return change your view of death? 2. How does Jesus'return change your view of your life? 3. How does Jesus'return change your view of your possessions? 4. How does Jesus'return change your view of disappointment and suffering? 5. How does Jesus'return change your view of love and blessing? 6. What are some practical ways you could encourage those around you...

Application Questions 1. How could you make the pursuit of holiness a more prominent goal in your life? 2. What areas of sexual immorality is God calling you to confess to him, confess to a brother or sister, and repent of? 3. How can we make our church family a place that draws people out of the hidden corners? 4. What aspects of the gospel do you think people need to be reminded of the most when...

Application Questions 1. Has there been a moment when news about someone's faithfulness or salvation has caused you to feel "really alive"? 2. Is there something so important to you that you find yourself committed to pray earnestly "night and day" for it? How did God respond to your prayers? 3. If "holiness" means adopting the character of God as our character, where are you feeling progress? Whe...

Application Questions: 1. What holds you back from speaking the gospel to non-Christian neighbors, co-workers, and friends? 2. Think of your non-Christian friends and what's going on in their lives. What are some ways you can lovingly speak the personal gospel to them? 3. Think of the five words Brian mentioned that make up the full gospel: God, Man, Sin, Jesus, Faith. What words do you have a har...

Application Questions: 1. If you haven't already, draw a map of your street or apartment building. Fill in the map with the names of your neighbors. 2. How could you most pray for each of your neighbors? 3. Which of your neighbors' stories do you know? 4. Which of your neighbors do you know how you could serve them? 5. What is one thing you could do to take the "next step" with each of your neighb...

Application Questions: 1. How would seeing yourself as an ambassador change your perspective about your life? 2. In what ways do you live like an ambassador for Christ? In what ways do you live more like a tourist? 3. What would evangelistic intentionality look like in your life? 4. Who are two or three non-Christians you could make space in your life for? How could you pursue them?

Application Questions: 1. What has your experience been with evangelism? What appeals to you? What doesn't appeal to you? 2. What are some reasons you are motivated to evangelize? What are some reasons you aren't motivated to evangelize? How do these reasons compare with Paul's motivations in 2 Corinthians 5:17-21? 3. What are some ways you can (a) internalize and (b) act on the motivations to eva...

Application Questions: 1. How have you seen your friends and those in your CG need words that inform? 2. What holds you back from speaking words that inform? 3. How have you seen your friends and those in your CG need words that affirm? 4. What holds you back from speaking words that affirm? 5. How have you seen your friends and those in your CG need words that modify? 6. What holds you back from...

Application Questions: 1. How is the glory of God revealed in everyday, mundane acts of love? 2. What do you possess that you could share with others around you (possessions, gifts, talents)? 3. How can you bear burdens with brothers and sisters in Christ around you? 4. What are ways you can cultivate your affection, unity, and selflessness towards others? 5. How does the example of Christ motivat...

Application Questions: 1. Do you think of deep Christian community as central to your life? How does that affect the way you live? 2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says that we can't love our idea of a perfect community more than the actual community around us. How have you experienced that tension? What has it looked like for you to embrace the messiness of real community? 3. Are you more intentional or pa...

Application Questions: 1. What has your experience been with Christian community? 2. How have other Christians have helped you grow, and vice versa? Do you think that same growth could have happened individually? 3. If someone looked at your life, would they say you have deep, interdependent relationships with other Christians? Why or why not? 4. How can you build others up in love in your communi...

Application Questions 1. What are ways in your life where God is testing your love and loyalty? 2. Why should we love God more than anything else? 3. How can you identify idols in your heart? 4. What are practical steps you can take to expel idols from your heart?

Application Questions 1. How do you typically handle your guilt over doing something you shouldn't have? How do you think, feel, or act? 2. When you do confess and repent (to God and others), why do you do it? If you don't confess and repent, why not? 3. Why do you think it's true that the person who is forgiven much loves much? How have you seen that at work in your own life? 4. What practical wa...

Application Questions 1. Do you relate to God more as an employee or a friend? Why do you think that is? 2. Do you feel like you are abiding in Christ or abiding somewhere else? What does that do to your attitudes, emotions, and relationship with others? 3. How would meditating on God's Word help you draw closer to God and enjoy his friendship? 4. Are your prayers honest and open? What are some wa...

Application Questions 1. How well do you listen to God through his Word? 2. How could you take steps to regularly remember who is talking when you spend time in the Bible? 3. How would recognizing how God is talking help you listen to him? What practical ways could you pay closer attention to the actual words God has spoken in his Word? 4. Is your heart regularly ready to respond when you are list...

Application Questions 1. Do you feel like there is a purpose for your life? How does that impact the way you live? 2. What is your purpose in life? (What gets you out of bed in the morning?) Where does that purpose come from? 3. Which do you prioritize more in your own life: being a disciple (your personal life with God), walking with other disciples (close Christian community), or inviting new di...

Application Questions: 1. How has the resurrection changed the past? (read: 1 Corinthians 15:17-19) How does the truth of the resurrection provide an anchor to your faith? 2. How has the resurrection changed your future? (read: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) How does the promise of a future resurrection give you hope and peace? 3. How does the resurrection change your present? (read: Romans 6:5-11) How...

Application Questions 1. Recall some of the ways that the Old Testament looked forward to and anticipated the cross. 2. How has the cross changed everything in your life? How is it the pinnacle of the story of your life? 3. What areas in your life have yet to be transformed by the cross? How could regularly meditating on the story of the cross help to facilitate that needed transformation? 4. What...

Application Questions: 1. What part of your life (money, time, energy, effort, energy, etc.) is Jesus looking at you, saying "I need that"? 2. Are there trials in your life that are unexpected for you? How can you actively seek to trust God's Kingship over you in the midst of that trial? 3. In what ways do you care more about the benefits of Christ than Christ Himself? 4. How should you respond to...

Application Questions 1. What is a prophet, and how is Jesus a prophet? 2. How does Jesus the prophet expose truth from pretense? 3. What in your life do you see a need for God's Word to ​expose?​ 4. How does Jesus the prophet displace all other prophets? 5. What in your life do you listen to as a prophet that needs to be displaced?

Application Questions 1. What parts of your life do you feel like you hold back from Jesus? Why do you think that is? What do you think he would do with them? 2. Do you lean into or lean away from the idea that you are a sinner in your daily life? What are some attitudes, actions, or relationships where you see that at work? 3. Do you believe that God celebrates over you because of Jesus? What evi...

Application Questions Reflecting on all the centuries that the people of God were pining in sin and error, what do you think it was like for the Messiah, the Savior to finally come? What does following the humble example of Christ look like practically in your life? What would it practically mean for you to make the following three resolutions for 2016: 1. To love others sacrificially 2. To delive...

The last chapter of the Old Testament story shows us God bringing his people out of exile, just as he promised. But while the people lived in their historic land again, their hearts were still elsewhere. The Old Testament ends with the people needing their hearts to come home, and in Jesus we find the one who can bring all of us all the way back home to God. Application Questions: 1. If "home is w...

During the time of the exile God, through the prophets, got more explicit than he had ever been before about what he had planned for his people. It was this time that God promised he would establish a New Covenant with his people, a New Covenant that would fulfill and supersede the old covenants, a New Covenant that would be the climax of all history. This is the covenant that we live under, throu...