Holy Habits
Restart Your Life
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
Who are you most like in your family?
What did you want to grow up to be?
Text Questions
What is a disciple of Jesus?
Read Philippians 3:13
What stuck out to you?
What is Paul reaching forward for?
Read Hebrews 5:11-14
What stuck out to you?
What is the problem?
What is meant by milk and solid food?
What is the teaching here?
Read 1 Corinthians 11:1
What stuck out to you?
What does it mean to follow his example?
Who are we to imitate? And why?
Read Luke 9:23-25
What stuck out to you?
What is Jesus teaching about discipleship?
What does it mean to take up your cross and follow Jesus?
Read Colossians 3:5-11
What stuck out to you?
What are we to put to death and why?
What is this teaching about discipleship?
Personal Questions
Are you a disciple of Jesus?
Are you maturing as a disciple of Jesus?
Are you following Jesus' example?
Are you taking up your cross daily and following Jesus?
Are you putting to death the flesh and growing your spirit daily?
Application
Daily Time: In God’s Word
John 8:31–32
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.””
Prayer: Talking with God
John 15:7-8
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Generosity: Giving Back to God
Luke 14:33
33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
Fellowship: Enjoying God’s Family
John 13:34–35
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.””
Verses
Philippians 3:13
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, 14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 5:11-14
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
1 Corinthians 11:1
1 Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
Luke 9:23-25
23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
Colossians 3:5-11
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
