Christ Community Downtown
Reconstructing Faith - October 9 | Downtown
The New Self - 9 & 10:45 AM & ON-DEMAND
Locations & Times
Christ Community - Downtown Campus
208 W 19th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Saturday 7:00 AM
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Whether you are NEW online or visiting one of our campuses, we would love to get a chance to know you.
http://linktr.ee/cckcCONVERSATION STARTERS:
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource to you. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.
1. Our broader, modern Western culture talks a lot about “being true to yourself.” What does that mean, and in what ways is it similar or different from what Paul describes here?
2. How does Paul contrast the old self versus the new self?
3. In verse 26, Paul commands them to “Be angry and do not sin.” Does it surprise you that the Bible permits, and even here commands, anger? What does Paul’s command look like practically? What characterizes healthy anger?
4. Read verses 24 to 32 again. Which aspect of “putting on the new self” do you currently find the most difficult? (Consider answering in pairs or groups of three).
PRAYER PROMPT:
Acknowledge before God that though he has made us new people, we still often act like our old selves. Pause to silently confess sins before God. Praise him for his grace and ask for his continued work in your lives.
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource to you. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.
1. Our broader, modern Western culture talks a lot about “being true to yourself.” What does that mean, and in what ways is it similar or different from what Paul describes here?
2. How does Paul contrast the old self versus the new self?
3. In verse 26, Paul commands them to “Be angry and do not sin.” Does it surprise you that the Bible permits, and even here commands, anger? What does Paul’s command look like practically? What characterizes healthy anger?
4. Read verses 24 to 32 again. Which aspect of “putting on the new self” do you currently find the most difficult? (Consider answering in pairs or groups of three).
PRAYER PROMPT:
Acknowledge before God that though he has made us new people, we still often act like our old selves. Pause to silently confess sins before God. Praise him for his grace and ask for his continued work in your lives.
Prayer Requests
As a staff it is a privilege to pray for our congregation. Social distance does not change that! If you are in need of prayer click the link to fill out an online prayer request.
https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/1559/responses/newTitle: The New Self
Scripture: Ephesians 4:17-32
Speaker: Caleb Jenkins, CalebJ@cckc.church
Scripture: Ephesians 4:17-32
Speaker: Caleb Jenkins, CalebJ@cckc.church
> The True You Is the New You
> The True You… Builds with Words
> The True You… Is Good at Anger
> The True You… Radically Forgives
“Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it. To excuse, what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
-C.S. Lewis, “Forgiveness"
-C.S. Lewis, “Forgiveness"
> The Holy Spirit Grieves When You Aren’t You
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