Sep 18, 2022
Make Every Effort – 2 Peter 1:5-11
By: Ben Lairamore
Series: II Peter
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Which good quality listed in verses 5-7 do you most need to make every effort to grow in?
- Give an example of how possessing these good qualities would prevent a Christian from being useless and unproductive. Do you have an example from your own life?
- Why would lacking these good qualities be the result of forgetting one’s own salvation?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
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- Sep 18, 2022Make Every Effort – 2 Peter 1:5-11Sep 18, 2022Make Every Effort – 2 Peter 1:5-11By: Ben LairamoreSeries: II Peter
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Which good quality listed in verses 5-7 do you most need to make every effort to grow in?
- Give an example of how possessing these good qualities would prevent a Christian from being useless and unproductive. Do you have an example from your own life?
- Why would lacking these good qualities be the result of forgetting one’s own salvation?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Sep 11, 2022Divine Provision – 2 Peter 1:1-4Sep 11, 2022Divine Provision – 2 Peter 1:1-4By: Ben LairamoreSeries: II PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Does it encourage you to know that you have everything that is needed to live a life that is growing in godliness?
- Where might we be tempted to look for the ability to be godly, besides the Lord?
- How does believing God’s promises enable us to share God’s holy character and escape corrupt desires. How have you experienced this to be true in your own life?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Aug 28, 2022Making it to the Finish Line – I Peter 5:6-14Aug 28, 2022Making it to the Finish Line – I Peter 5:6-14By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Why is entrusting your anxieties to God an expression of humility?
- Is there an area of your life where you need to cast your anxiety upon God?
- What does soberly resisting the devil look like in your own life?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Aug 21, 2022The Recipe for Church Unity – I Peter 5:1-5Aug 21, 2022The Recipe for Church Unity – I Peter 5:1-5By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Why are the instructions of verses 1-3 so important for pastors? How can they also apply to others who serve in different leadership positions of the church as well?
- Why might younger members of the church be singled out for instruction about being subject to elders/pastors?
- Humility among all persons of the church is essential for unity. Is there an area of church life where you need God’s grace to grow in humility?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Aug 14, 2022How to Respond to Suffering – I Peter 4:12-19Aug 14, 2022How to Respond to Suffering – I Peter 4:12-19By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- What is the relationship of sharing in Christ’s sufferings and sharing in His glory? Why are these connected? (See I John 2:6 & 2 Timothy 3:12)
- We are all called to say and do things for the name of Christ that will surely get us insulted. What is this for you?
- Is there an area where you have dodged suffering by being less than faithful?
- Why are we able to rejoice when we suffer for Christ’s sake? (See Acts 5:41, Romans 5:3, & Hebrews 10:34.)
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Aug 7, 2022Because the End is Close – I Peter 4:7-11Aug 7, 2022Because the End is Close – I Peter 4:7-11By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about the passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Why should the coming end have such a big influence on how we live now? In what way does this influence your life?
- Is your life marked by sober praying? What changes might the Lord have you make to your prayer life?
- What gifts has God given you? How can you use these gifts to lovingly serve others?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Jul 24, 2022Don’t Look Back – I Peter 4:1-6Jul 24, 2022Don’t Look Back – I Peter 4:1-6By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about the passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Do you feel willing and ready to suffer as a Christian? Why? Why not?
- Do you have any former friends who now reject you? How can you love them and pray for them?
- What gives us strength to keep going even when we suffer for good? (4:5-6.)
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Jul 17, 2022Jesus’ Victory – I Peter 3:18-22Jul 17, 2022Jesus’ Victory – I Peter 3:18-22By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I PeterQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about the passage?
- How does this passage challenge you or encourage you?
- Why was Jesus’ suffering necessary in order to bring us to God?
- How do you show your thankfulness that Jesus suffered for you?
- How are we similar to Noah in the days that he built the ark? Does this similarity encourage you?
- What are the similarities of Christian baptism to the flood of Noah’s day?
- How will you apply today’s passage in your own life?
- Jul 10, 2022Living with Courage in the face of Enemies – I Peter 3:13-17Jul 10, 2022Living with Courage in the face of Enemies – I Peter 3:13-17By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I Peter
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Have you ever faced a situation where you felt tempted to fear someone who was speaking maliciously to you or about you? Why is it important that we not fear such people?
- What makes it possible for us to not fear such people who are maligning us?
- What will help us to be prepared to defend our hope in Christ with gentleness and respect? When has God given you an opportunity to do this?
- Christians are sometimes reviled for our “good behavior” (verse 16). What are some examples of this happening in our own context?
- In what sense will our enemies who slander and revile us be put to shame by our good conduct?
- Jul 3, 2022Instructions for All of Us – I Peter 3:8-12Jul 3, 2022Instructions for All of Us – I Peter 3:8-12By: Ben LairamoreSeries: I Peter
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of scripture?
- Of the several descriptions of how we are to relate to one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, which is most convicting for you? Why?
- How does a “humble mind” (vs. 8) enable us to have “unity of mind” with other believers and to resist the temptation to “repay evil for evil”? What enables us to have a “humble mind”? (See I Peter 2:9-10.)
- According to verse 9, we are “called” to bless those who do us evil so that we may obtain a blessing. What is this blessing? (See verses 10-12.) How have you experienced such blessing in your own life?
- How does this passage challenge you personally? How will you respond in obedience to what you have heard?
