EXTENDING:
Extending Family
May 31, 2009
Lady Liberty
Ephesians 1:4-8
1) The Motivation for
Extending: _______________________ (Ephesians 1:4)
John 3:16; 1 John 3:1-2; John
1:12-13
The Great Extending
2) The Reality of Extending: ____________________________ (Ephesians 1:5)
Ruth 1:16-17
You’re Family!
3) The Effect of Extending: _____________________________ (Ephesians 1:7)
Romans 10:9-13
Romans 8:28
Redemption Stories
THIS WEEK:
1) Spend time thanking God for His love for you and your adoption as a child of God.
2) Extend love to someone who needs it this week.
3) Invite someone into your life.
4) Ask
God to show you how you can be a part of
someone’s redemption story.
EXTENDING:
Extending
Family
Bible Study
Questions:
1) Who would you consider an “honorary member” of your family?
2) Has anyone ever “adopted” you? If so, who and what was/is special about that relationship?
Read
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
3) What do people look like from a “worldly point of view” (“according to the flesh”)? How does Jesus look from this perspective?
4) According to the passage, how do we become new? What does it mean to be made new?
5) Once the “old is gone and the new has come,” what is our responsibility? How do we fulfill this responsibility? What is the message?
6) What is the significance of you and I representing God in the world?
7) How does God choose to speak into the lives of people and into the world?
8) How difference does it make knowing that God has adopted (reconciled) you? How can we respond to this?
9) How can “extending” your family serve as a tool to reach those around you for Christ?
10) Who is it in your life that needs a “family”? What is God calling you to do about it?
11) How is God moving you to be an ambassador? Where? To whom? In what ways?
12) Share one step you are going to take to extend yourself and represent Christ this week to someone in your life?