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Application Questions 1. What are some of God's greatest blessings in your life? 2. Are you truly cherishing and enjoying those blessings? If not, what hinders your enjoyment? 3. In what ways are you planning / preparing to part with those blessings for the sake of the Gospel? 4. How would your life be different if you lived it "ready to share," planning to part with many of your blessings for the...

Application Questions 1. What would be different in your life if you saw God's salvation as a gift to be enjoyed? 2. Are you growing in your faith? How can you tell? 3. What do you complain about? Have you confessed and repented? 4. How does your security in Christ anchor you from the storms of life?

Application Questions 1. How does pride (concentration on the self) look in your life? Where do you see it affect your attitude, relationships, and decisions? 2. What strikes you most about Jesus' attitude in vv 6-11? Where in life are you trying to grasp your own significance instead of giving it away for others? 3. What would have to change for you to experience true humility? What is some of th...

Application Questions 1. What are ways that you find yourself pursuing surface-level unity, not empowered by the gospel? 2. In what ways are you tempted to think of yourself as more significant than others? 3. How would your relationships at work change if you considered others more significant than yourself? 4. How would your relationships in your Community Group change if you considered others m...

Application Questions 1. What are the ways that fear prevents you from growing in Christ? 2. Are you in a state of surviving or thriving? 3. How can you continue to strive forward in the gospel regardless of your circumstances? 4. What areas of life do you need-courage-? What courageous act is God calling you to next?

Application Questions 1. How often do you take time to consider death? What might be a benefit of you considering it more? 2. What does “to die is gain” mean to you? 3. What are the things in this world (apart from Christ) that are “really living” for you? 4. What is one thing in your life that you look to for joy and satisfaction that is really just “McDonalds” ? 5. If God desires to keep you her...

Application Questions 1. How much do your circumstances affect your attitude? Take a moment and think about why that is. What is it about different circumstances that influence you so much? 2. Think of times you've seen the gospel advance in your own heart, in the lives of Christians around you, or in the lives of non-Christians who have come to believe. What were your circumstances like during th...

Application Questions 1. What habits exist in your life that help you grow in Christ? 2. What are ways that you grow in your love for God and for others? 3. How can you refocus your life around things that are “excellent” and God-glorifying? 4. What fruit of righteousness do you see in your life? Whatshouldyou see that you don't?

Application Questions 1. How can you live with the purpose of being a partner in the gospel? 2. Are you overjoyed that your life is a painting and God is the master artist? What kind of painting do you expect God to paint in your life? What would give Him the most glory? 3. What would it look like for you to partake of the grace of God every day? What would it look like to see your whole life, the...

Application Questions 1. How does understanding the story of Paul's imprisonment change how you read and understand the letter to the Philippians? 2. How might the following verses take on a different meaning in light of understanding Paul's experience? -Philippians 1:2 -Philippians 2:3 -Philippians 2:14 -Philippians 4:4 -Philippians 4:6 -Philippians 4:11 -Philippians 4:13 3. What parts of the sto...

Application Questions 1. How has God taught you to grow more and more through the letter to the Thessalonians? 2. In what areas of your life are you "half-living"? What steps of faith can you take (or spiritual habits you can put into practice) to grow in those areas to live abundantly? 3. What parts of life do you need to let go of in order for you to be able to "take hold of that which is truly...

Application Questions 1. How should you respond to your non-Christian neighbors, co-workers, and friends in light of the Day of the Lord? 2. What does a life of eager expectation look like? 3. How often do you grieve the brokenness of this world and long for the next? Are you awake, or asleep, to spiritual realities in your life? 4. What habits can you develop in your life that can stir and awaken...

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?