Great Grace | Know (Discussion Guide)

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Life Group Discussion Guide :: Sunday, April 07, 2013 (JXG) 

Sandy Lake Wesleyan :: Pastor Jeremiah

Great Grace | Know (Week 1)

Remember, this Guide is not intended as an exhaustive list of what can be discussed, but is best used as a guide to help your Group process what God is teaching them. Read through the discussion points below and 

prayerfully consider what the Holy Spirit would have you work through.

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 Be sure to pray for, encourage each other, 

and share the victories God is giving your Group.

From Last Week (King Me, wk 4 | Jesus):

Pastor Shawn said, “We’re all looking for a king.” What do you think he meant by that? What are ways we can see the truth of this both in and around us?

Read Ephesians 2:1-3

How does this show the reality that ‘everybody gets lost, we all lose courage & live in fear, we were all created to be wise, it live foolishly?

Read John 1:9-13

What sticks out to you? 

What seems significant about Jesus’s interaction with those around him?

What is the great hope seen here. 

Read 1 Peter 1:3-4

How is the Resurrection of Jesus vital to our adoption?

What does Jesus’s resurrection do?

What do you think it does beyond what’s shown in this Scripture?

Read Ephesians 2:8-9

Why would the writer highlight the difference between ‘works’ and ‘grace’ here?

What is significant to us as we seek to live in the light of the resurrection?

This Week:

Have you ever tried to force some part of your life to take the shape or form of something else? What did that entail? What was the end result?

Read Philippians 3:7-11

Why is Paul’s insistence that everything he had worked for is ‘garbage’ significant?

What role does the power of the resurrection seem to play in this assertion?

What does it mean to ‘know know the power of the resurrection and participation in his sufferings?’ How is knowing the power of the resurrection and participation in the suffering of Jesus connected?

Read Philippians 3:12-13

What is significant about Paul’s ‘forward-leaning’ posture here?

How can we lay hold of the goal of new life and continue to pursue Jesus?

How do we avoid the pitfall of making our ‘pursuit’ one of more legalism?

Read Ephesians 2:3-5

What do we see as the hope of great grace in this passage?

Why is there the reminder “it is by grace you have been saved?”

Read 1 Corinthians 15:22

What does it mean that ‘in Adam all died?’ How is understanding this vital to how we live in the light of Jesus’s resurrection?

Pastor Jeremiah repeated this statement a couple times: There is nothing you have ever done which cannot be forgiven. Nothing you have ever done which must define you. No part of you which God cannot make new in the power of the resurrection.

What was your initial thought about this?

How do we move this from being something that is simple ‘head knowledge’ to allowing it to penetrate our heart.

What do you think the further ripple of this truth might be?

Our “So What? Now What?” next steps were to, over the rest of this series:

:: Ask God to teach you what you don’t yet know about grace (ask him to move you from having a definition to knowing the meaning of great grace).

:: Ask God to show you where you need to experience his great grace.

Take time as Group to pray for one another--that he would answer these questions for you and show you where he desires the power of resurrection to be seen and known in your life.

Continue to challenge each other to pray these things throughout the rest of the Great Grace series.