It’s All Good | Week 6
Note to the Leaders:
This discussion guide is a help for you to engage and steer the conversation within your group.
You do not have to read every question; this is just resources for you to move the main idea forward.
Go through the lesson before hand to choose the best discussion questions for your group!
Do your best to make the story come to life by asking questions that will spur your group conversations that make this story play come alive and become applicable to their lives.
Week 6 Live Attractive Lives
Key Verse: Philippians 3:16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
Getting Started:
If you knew that you would 100 percent accomplish your goal (Lose weight, become buff, be debit free, earn a fortune) in the future, would it be easier to put in the effort today?
Reread Philippians 1:6 from week 1.
6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ
Pastor said that “Our attitude about tomorrow impacts our attitude today!”
How does realizing your future is secure in Christ and one day Christ work will be completed in you affect the way you think about today?
Because Paul wrote two thirds of the New Testament and we read lots of his stories of boldness we tend to hold him up to as a Spiritual Superstar.
He didn’t look at himself that way but instead here is what he said about his own spiritual walk.
Read Philippians 3:12-16
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently that too God will make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
What is Paul pressing on to?
In light of the first verse, we read in Philippians 1:6, what does Paul mean “to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me”?
How does this relate to what we have already learned about working out your salvation rather than for your salvation?
Our relationship with God is a process of growing in understanding who we are, what we have and how we can use all that we process in becoming like Christ.
We have already attained it so we must learn how to apply it to our lives.
Don’t become distracted by the current circumstances or even the past circumstances as we have been made new in Christ.
We all messed up in the past, including Paul. Satan will try to make us look back and remind us how unworthy we are of God’s love and blessing.
Instead of letting that distract us we should allow it to remind us of how great God’s grace has been to us.
This will create in us a heart of gratitude rather than stop our progress by bogging us down in remorse.
What is the view Paul is asking us to have about our relationship with God?
Read Philippians 3:20
Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
How does this verse explain the phrase “If I Know Where I Belong I can Thrive Where I am”?
How should this affect our daily lives?
Read Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!
Next Step:
Our lives our founded in Christ and a promise of an astonishing future.
Is your life filled with joy beyond your circumstances?
Are you enjoying the journey of growing in who God has made you to be?
In you answered No to either of these questions what untruth is distracting you from the true hope you possess?
Keep striving! Keep going! God has so much more for you!