Discussion Questions

  1. The word identity is thrown around a lot in today's world. Why might the idea of identity so important to people?
  2. What are some of the biggest things that people put their identities in that are not God? What happens when people put their identity in these things?
  3. How should our identity being rooted in Christ as His sons and daughters distinguish us from the rest of the world? 

READ 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-21, THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW:

  1. What does this passage tell me about God and about people?
  2. If I believe today's teaching is from God and that He loves me so much He sent Jesus to die for me, what is the appropriate way to respond in my everyday life?
  3. Who can I talk to more about this or share this with?

Spend time sharing prayer requests as a group, and close your time in prayer together.

Scripture

2 Corinthians 5:14-21 (NIV):

14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.