Sermon Application Questions:
1. What is one thing that stuck out to you from the sermon?
2. How can we as believers help each other pursue holy sexuality?
3. What are some ways that you can be tempted to see God’s guard rails as robbing you of joy rather than for your joy? (Grand Canyon Illustration)
4. What is one step that you need to take in your own life based on the sermon? (It could be new way of thinking or new action)
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Christian, Pursue Holiness
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
July 11, 2021 • Ryan Fultz
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