JOY (Living Without Flip Flops) - Philippians 3.1-11

Know

• What’s your favourite thing about thanksgiving?

Grow

• (3:5-6) What kind of things are you tempted to put on your ‘check list’ to show God you’re worthy?
• (3:9) What is the basic difference between works righteousness and faith righteousness? [i]
• (3:3) Paul described true Christians as ones who glory, or ‘boast’ in Jesus Christ. What does that mean and how do such people differ from merely religious people?
• (3:3) Why does the true Christian not put confidence in the flesh?
• Why is sincerity not enough for salvation? How is Paul a good example of this?
• How was Paul using the wrong measuring stick before he met Jesus? How are people today still doing this?
• “He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” What does that mean to you?
• (3:9) What do these words mean to you: to be found in Him?

Show

• (3:10) What emotional response to have to this phrase: that I may know Him?

 

[i] Wiersbe, Warren W.. Be Joyful (Philippians): Even When Things Go Wrong, You Can Have Joy (The BE Series Commentary) (pp. 106-108). David C Cook. Kindle Edition.