Study Questions:
1. What things stuck out to you from this text? Is there anything in this text that challenges you?
2. Knowing yourself, what are some practical glimpses of you walking and being filled with the Spirit? What are glimpses of you not walking and being filled with the Spirit?
3. How can “community” and “discipleship” foster life lived in step with the Holy Spirit?
4. What does John the Baptist mean by “bear fruit in keeping with repentance”? (Matthew 3:8)
Additional Scripture References:
1 John 2:18; Matthew 3:8; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 4:4-6; Romans 5:18; Luke 11:11-13; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Ephesians 1:13; Romans 8:16; Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 5:25
Conversion (Part 2)
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