Verified
Week 2

Pat Hood [Senior Pastor]

1 John 1:5–10

August 23, 2020 Sermon Discussion Questions

Get to know me:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to generate responses that are self-revealing and informative. Feel free to ask all of these questions to your group or simply choose the one that best fits your group.

1. What is your favorite trick for telling when people are being honest with you?

2. Being honest with ourselves about our own flaws can be a real challenge. Why?

3. What do you think is the best way to address our personal shortfalls? 

Into the Bible:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to draw group members into the Bible to discover truth from passages that were not the primary text for the weekend message.

Read 1 John 3: 4-10

1. Does this vs mean that once a person becomes a Christian you will never sin?

2. What did Pat mean today when he said “Belief Determines Behavior”?

3. What does vs 9 mean when it says that, “No one who is born of God will go on sinning, because God’s seed remains in him”?

Application:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to apply the main points from the weekend message.

1. As you change & grow over time, what direction do you feel like God might be pulling you? 

2. Please share some best practices that help you to run from the things that tempt you into sin? How do you resist temptation?

3. So, being a Christian does not mean living a life absent of sin….instead it means that we deal with Sin differently. How should a “Verified” Christian deal with sin?