Restoration Through Transformation

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Restoration Through Transformation

March 12, 2023 • Erik Miller • 2 Corinthians 3:18, Romans 12:1–2, Romans 8:28–30

Main Point: God’s desire is to redeem, restore, and transform people into the image of Jesus.

Questions:

What impacted you from the message this weekend? What challenged you or encouraged you? How did the message impact your understanding of spiritual growth?

What things have helped you grow in Christlikeness during different seasons of your life? What things are helping you become more like Jesus now?

Read Romans 8:28-30. What words and ideas stick out to you in these verses? What is the purpose of God saving people? What does it mean to be “conformed to the image of his Son”?

The Apostle Paul is describing a process of becoming like Jesus. This is often called the process of sanctification. What does it look like to become more like Jesus? What is necessary for that transformation to happen?

Read 2 Corinthians 3:18. Take this verse word-by-word. What words do you have questions about? What is Paul communicating?

The word “transformed” is important to this verse. What does it mean? What does “being transformed into his image” mean in the life of a follower of Christ?

Read Romans 12:1-2. What does this verse tell us about living for God? How does what a person worships (what is most important to us) affect what that person becomes?

What do these verses tell us about being transformed? According to verse 2, how are we transformed? What does this process look like?

What is one thing you can do this week to put into practice what you learned in this message?

Transformed by Community

March 26, 2023 • Erik Miller • John 17:20–23, Acts 2:42–47, Hebrews 10:23–25

Main Point: God’s design is for us to grow in a missional community. Questions: What impacted you from the message this weekend? What challenged you or encouraged you? How did the message impact your understanding of spiritual growth? What does it mean that Christians are a missional community? Have you experienced church that way? What are some of the barriers to living life together in community? Read John 17:20-23. What is the context of these verses? Who is Jesus praying for? What is his prayer? Why does Jesus stress the importance of unity in his prayer? How is Christian unity a witness to the world? Read Acts 2:42-47. What do you notice about the community in these verses? What did they focus on when they gathered? Why were these elements central to Christian gatherings? In addition to meeting for worship, how often did these Christians meet? What does this suggest about the importance of being together for a Christian community? Read Hebrews 10:23-25. What words stick out to you in this passage? What are Christians commanded to do in these verses? Why is Christian regular fellowship so important? What role does encouragement play in Christian gatherings? What do Christians miss by not doing life together? What is one thing you can do this week to put into practice what you learned in this message?

Transformed by Truth

March 19, 2023 • Erik Miller • Colossians 3:1–10

Main Point: We grow in faith as we trust in God and are transformed by His truth. Questions: 1. What impacted you from the message this weekend? What challenged you or encouraged you? How did the message impact your understanding of spiritual growth? 2. What do you remember from last week? What does it mean, “What we behold we become”? 3. How are love and trust related? Can you have one without the other? How is believing that God loves you related to your ability to trust God’s transforming work in your life? 4. Read Colossians 3:1-11. What words and ideas stick out to you in these verses? How do these verses relate to spiritual growth and transformation? 5. Read Colossians 3:1-4. What does Paul mean that Christians have been “raised with Christ”? What does he mean that Christians have “died”? How does being saved change the heart and mind’s orientation? 6. How does a Christian progressively change the orientation of the heart and the mind from earthly things to things above? 7. Read Colossians 3:5-11. What practices does Paul list as being part of the earthly nature? What reason does he give for putting these things to death? 8. What differences are there between the new self and the old self? What is the defining quality of the new self? 9. Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17. What role does Scripture play in spiritual transformation? How important is meditating on Scripture to spiritual transformation? 10. Read Psalm 1:1-3. How does the Psalmist describe the person who meditates on God’s word. What impact does it have on that person? How do you meditate on the Scripture? 11. What is one thing you can do this week to put into practice what you learned in this message?