Application Questions
1. What are the ways that fear prevents you from growing in Christ?
2. Are you in a state of surviving or thriving?
3. How can you continue to strive forward in the gospel regardless of your circumstances?
4. What areas of life do you need-courage-? What courageous act is God calling you to next?

Application Questions

1. How often do you take time to consider death? What might be a benefit of you considering it more?
2. What does “to die is gain” mean to you?
3. What are the things in this world (apart from Christ) that are “really living” for you?
4. What is one thing in your life that you look to for joy and satisfaction that is really just “McDonalds” ?
5. If God desires to keep you here (on Earth) for the next year, whose “progress and joy in the faith” would you remain here to help with?
6. What specific activities or plans could help you to meditate on God's word, kindling your heart to a sole passion for Christ?

Application Questions

1. How much do your circumstances affect your attitude? Take a moment and think about why that is. What is it about different circumstances that influence you so much?
2. Think of times you've seen the gospel advance in your own heart, in the lives of Christians around you, or in the lives of non-Christians who have come to believe. What were your circumstances like during those times?
3. What are the ways you choose fake safety over joy in your life? What would change in those areas if you focused only on the advance of the gospel?
4. What scares you the most about focusing only on the advance of the gospel in your life? What excites you the most about focusing only on the advance of the gospel in your life?
5. What's the next step you can take this week to focus on the advance of the gospel and experience a surprising joy?

Application Questions

1. What habits exist in your life that help you grow in Christ?
2. What are ways that you grow in your love for God and for others?
3. How can you refocus your life around things that are “excellent” and God-glorifying?
4. What fruit of righteousness do you see in your life? Whatshouldyou see that you don't?

Application Questions

1. How can you live with the purpose of being a partner in the gospel?
2. Are you overjoyed that your life is a painting and God is the master artist? What kind of painting do you expect God to paint in your life? What would give Him the most glory?
3. What would it look like for you to partake of the grace of God every day? What would it look like to see your whole life, the good times and the hard times both, as God's grace?

Application Questions

1. How does understanding the story of Paul's imprisonment change how you read and understand the letter to the Philippians?
2. How might the following verses take on a different meaning in light of understanding Paul's experience?

-Philippians 1:2
-Philippians 2:3
-Philippians 2:14
-Philippians 4:4
-Philippians 4:6
-Philippians 4:11
-Philippians 4:13

3. What parts of the story of Paul's imprisonment in Acts 21-28 set an example that you can follow in situations in your life?
4. What additional study, prayer, meditation, etc. could you do to get the most out of our study through Philippians this fall?

Application Questions

1. How has God taught you to grow more and more through the letter to the Thessalonians?
2. In what areas of your life are you "half-living"? What steps of faith can you take (or spiritual habits you can put into practice) to grow in those areas to live abundantly?
3. What parts of life do you need to let go of in order for you to be able to "take hold of that which is truly life"?

Application Questions

1. How should you respond to your non-Christian neighbors, co-workers, and friends in light of the Day of the Lord?
2. What does a life of eager expectation look like?
3. How often do you grieve the brokenness of this world and long for the next? Are you awake, or asleep, to spiritual realities in your life?
4. What habits can you develop in your life that can stir and awaken your soul for God and His Eternal Kingdom?

Application Questions

1. How does Jesus'return change your view of death?
2. How does Jesus'return change your view of your life?
3. How does Jesus'return change your view of your possessions?
4. How does Jesus'return change your view of disappointment and suffering?
5. How does Jesus'return change your view of love and blessing?
6. What are some practical ways you could encourage those around you with reminders of Christ's return?

Application Questions

1. How could you make the pursuit of holiness a more prominent goal in your life?
2. What areas of sexual immorality is God calling you to confess to him, confess to a brother or sister, and repent of?
3. How can we make our church family a place that draws people out of the hidden corners?
4. What aspects of the gospel do you think people need to be reminded of the most when it comes to sexual sin?
5. Do you believe in the power of the Holy Spirit to produce holiness in your life? In what ways do you struggle to believe this?