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4. What are some ways that you have tried to saturate your life with God’s Word? What has worked best for you?
Grow Up in Christ – Lean into Community – Go Out for Cause
Life Group Study Guide #5 for February 7, 2016
5. What have you learned through hymns and/or worship songs, particularly in a group setting? How have they helped to teach or motivate you? How can you use them to teach and encourage others?
Opening Up – Building community in my Life Group 1. What is your favorite hymn or worship song? Why?
Digging In – Growing through God’s Word and God’s People 2. Quick Review: What did you hear in the sermon that was surprising, challenging, troubling, or useful? Explain.
3. Read Colossians 3:16-17. Summarize this passage in your own words:
What do you learn about God from these verses?
What does this passage command us to do?
6. Compare Colossians 3:17 with 2:16-23. Instead of a list of rules, how are we to determine what we do in word or deed in whatever situation we find ourselves?
7. Compare Colossians 3:16-17 with Ephesians 5:18-20. What is similar and what is different? What do you learn by looking at these two passages together?
Digging Deeper – Discovering more about God’s Word 8. Paul says that whatever we do, it should be done in the “name” of the Lord Jesus. What does this mean? Use a concordance or other Bible help to study the concept of things being done in the “name” of God and of Jesus in the Old and New Testaments.
Living Out – Taking steps to become a mature disciple of Christ
Pastor Bob Westfall
My next step today is to: A Realize that following Jesus is a community project
You Are Holy, Now Be Holy! Part 3 Colossians 3:16-17
B Daily read and pray God’s Word C
Study and apply God’s Word in community
D Be thankful 9. What next step is God asking you to take as a result of the sermon and this study? Share one specific thing you will do this week.
February 7, 2016
Main Idea: You are holy, now be holy! Exchange sinful practices with saintly practices to now be holy. (Colossians 3:5-17) Seven ways to now be holy:
Looking Up – Talking with God about myself and my Life Group Take time to play or sing a hymn or worship song together as a group before you begin your time of prayer.
Winter Life Groups meet the weeks of January 10 to March 13, 2016
Believe who God says you are – holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12; cf. 2:11-12)
Connect to community – Trust others with you (Colossians 3:12-15)
Supernaturally love – Commit to God’s best for others (Colossians 3:14)
Umpire your relationships with Christ’s peace (Colossians 3:15)
Saturate yourself with God’s Word (Colossians 3:16)
Whatever you say or do should be an expression of Jesus in you (Colossians 3:17)
Be thankful (Colossians 3:15-17)
Grow Up in Christ – Lean into Community – Go Out for Cause
Life Group Study Guide #5 for February 7, 2016
5. What have you learned through hymns and/or worship songs, particularly in a group setting? How have they helped to teach or motivate you? How can you use them to teach and encourage others?
Opening Up – Building community in my Life Group 1. What is your favorite hymn or worship song? Why?
Digging In – Growing through God’s Word and God’s People 2. Quick Review: What did you hear in the sermon that was surprising, challenging, troubling, or useful? Explain.
3. Read Colossians 3:16-17. Summarize this passage in your own words:
What do you learn about God from these verses?
What does this passage command us to do?
6. Compare Colossians 3:17 with 2:16-23. Instead of a list of rules, how are we to determine what we do in word or deed in whatever situation we find ourselves?
7. Compare Colossians 3:16-17 with Ephesians 5:18-20. What is similar and what is different? What do you learn by looking at these two passages together?
Digging Deeper – Discovering more about God’s Word 8. Paul says that whatever we do, it should be done in the “name” of the Lord Jesus. What does this mean? Use a concordance or other Bible help to study the concept of things being done in the “name” of God and of Jesus in the Old and New Testaments.
Living Out – Taking steps to become a mature disciple of Christ
Pastor Bob Westfall
My next step today is to: A Realize that following Jesus is a community project
You Are Holy, Now Be Holy! Part 3 Colossians 3:16-17
B Daily read and pray God’s Word C
Study and apply God’s Word in community
D Be thankful 9. What next step is God asking you to take as a result of the sermon and this study? Share one specific thing you will do this week.
February 7, 2016
Main Idea: You are holy, now be holy! Exchange sinful practices with saintly practices to now be holy. (Colossians 3:5-17) Seven ways to now be holy:
Looking Up – Talking with God about myself and my Life Group Take time to play or sing a hymn or worship song together as a group before you begin your time of prayer.
Winter Life Groups meet the weeks of January 10 to March 13, 2016
Believe who God says you are – holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12; cf. 2:11-12)
Connect to community – Trust others with you (Colossians 3:12-15)
Supernaturally love – Commit to God’s best for others (Colossians 3:14)
Umpire your relationships with Christ’s peace (Colossians 3:15)
Saturate yourself with God’s Word (Colossians 3:16)
Whatever you say or do should be an expression of Jesus in you (Colossians 3:17)
Be thankful (Colossians 3:15-17)
