1 John chapter 5

1. Obedience Is “Not a Burden” (v.3)

If you experience God’s commands as restrictive, what does that reveal about what you love more than Him?

2. Love for God’s Children (v.1–2)

Who in the body of Christ do you avoid, judge, or compete with, and how does that expose pride rather than love?

3. Overcoming the World (v.4)

Where do you repeatedly lose to temptation and then spiritualize it instead of calling it defeat?

4. Real Faith vs. Religious Identity (v.5)

If faith overcomes the world, what ongoing compromise proves your faith is passive, not victorious?

5. Calling God a Liar (v.10)

Where does your anxiety, control, or disobedience show that you do not actually trust what God has said?

6. Assurance and Integrity (v.13)

If you claim assurance of eternal life, does your private life support that confidence or contradict it?

7. Prayer and Will (v.14–15)

What prayers are you praying that you already know are outside God’s will but you want them anyway?

8. Enabling Sin (v.16–17)

Where have you stayed silent about someone’s destructive sin because preserving comfort mattered more than their soul?

9. Protected from the Evil One (v.18)

If the one born of God is guarded, what doors are you knowingly leaving open to temptation?

10. Idolatry (v.21)

When you are stressed, lonely, angry, or insecure, what do you instinctively reach for before you reach for God?

Closing Question

“Little children, guard yourselves from idols.” (v.21). What idol in this room is still being defended instead of destroyed?