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Bible Reading: Ephesians 1:1-14

Discussion questions: 

– Why is it such good news that God commands us to live for his glory? 

– What might it look like for you to make God’s glory the goal of your life? 

– What helps you grow your delight in God? 

– What might it look like for us as church to be seeking to glorify God in all that we do?  What might be prioritise and what might we let go of?

Bible Reading: Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Discussion Questions:

• Share your experience of both the positive and destructive power of words in your own life?

• Share some of the challenges to speaking truthfully to others today.

• Discuss the need to address our anger as we use our words for reconciliation.
  

• Share any wisdom you have with considering the “person, the problem and the process” in using our words more helpfully to build up others.

• Why does it matter how we use our words from God’s perspective, and for those who don’t yet know Christ?

• How does the work of Christ model for us how to use our words and enable us to have our hearts renewed by God’s word?

Bible Reading: Ephesians 4:17-24

Discussion Questions:

• Discuss what you find most challenging and exciting about Paul’s vision of Christian growth?

• Where have you seen growth in your life since becoming a Christian?

• What areas of your life do you find more difficult to see change in?

• What ways do we struggle to have a good and honest perspective of our former way of life? 

• How do we struggle to have a clear vision of the new life we were created to live, treasuring and following Christ? (To be like God in true righteousness and holiness)

• How does the historic account in the gospels of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection change the possibilities of real change in our lives?

• How could we be helping each other in “putting off” our old self and “putting on” our new self?