BIG IDEA: Holiness is not instant perfection—it’s lifelong formation.
Get To Know Your Group: What's a skill you've learned that you're unlikely to ever use again?
Sermon Questions:
- Where have you most recently looked for wholeness outside of God?
- How has marriage (or close relationships) exposed areas of selfishness in you?
- What does it mean that holiness is lifelong formation rather than instant perfection?
Scripture Discussion Questions:
Read 1 Peter 1:13–16
- What does it mean to “set your hope fully on grace”?
- How were you shaped by desires before knowing Christ?
- Why is holiness tied to identity rather than performance?
Read Philippians 3:9
- Why can’t we produce our own righteousness?
- How does receiving Christ’s righteousness change security?
- How does grace reshape identity?
Read Philippians 2:13
- How is God working in you right now?
- Why does transformation require cooperation?
- What area of your will is God reshaping?
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, make us holy as You are holy. Reshape our desires, dethrone our selfishness, and form us by resurrection power. Teach us covenant love and make us whole through Your grace. Amen.