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20 Jun Discussion Guide: How To Follow Jesus Christ Week 12

Posted at 12:25h in Community Group Resources by Mosaic Team

Before We Get Started

For our discussion today we will be using the sermon series discussion guides. If you would like to follow along you can access this discussion guide on the website at mosaicchurchaustin.com and then select “community group resources” in the menu options.

Prayer

Because the main goal of our time together is to establish relationships and learn how to walk with one another in all that God has called us to be and do, we’d like to begin by praying for one another. So, does anyone have anything you’d like us to pray for, or anything to share regarding how you’ve seen God moving in your life that we can celebrate together.

This Week’s Topic

This week we continue our new sermon series that will focus on what discipleship looks like through the lens of the life of the Apostle Peter. The series is titled How to Follow Jesus Christ. Over the the course of this series we will be discussing who it is that God has called us to be as Christians, the motivation behind that calling, and what that calling looks like when lived out in our every day lives.

Today’s Topic

Following Jesus Into Holiness

Discussion Questions

What thoughts come to mind when you hear the word “Holiness?” Do those thoughts conjure up good feelings or bad feelings? Why?

1 Peter 1:13-16

‘Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

What does it mean to be holy, or set apart for something?

Genesis 1:26-28

‘Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Scripture tells us Holiness is less about what you do, and more about what you were made for, what we’ve been set apart for. What does the Bible tell us we have been set apart for?

What does it mean to bear God’s image?

How does living that way tell the story of Who God is and what His Kingdom is all about to the world around us?

Romans 3:22-26

“The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

In what ways has humanity, and maybe even you, have fallen short of that Holiness God designed us for?

How does the world tend to deal with that reality of falling short of the glory of God?

What does that response usually lead to?

What is God’s solution, or response, to that falling short?

What does that response lead to?

Closing Thought

How can we be a holy nation, a royal priesthood, together and tell a better story? And what affect might that have in our city?