Too Good To Be True
A
Bible study on Ephesians 2
adapted from www.newspring.cc
Get
Started
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What’s one hope-filled situation
you’ve experienced recently?
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What’s one hopeless situation you’ve experienced?
Discuss
The
grace of God, given to us through Jesus Christ, changes lives.
What are the 5 Things the passage
says about People Who Don’t Know Jesus
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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Read Ephesians 2:1-3.
Jesus doesn’t turn us from
bad to good people, but from spiritually dead to alive in Him.
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What’s the difference between bad
and spiritually dead?
Read Ephesians 2:12.
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Have
you been excluded from something? What does it feel like to be excluded?
Read Ephesians 2:13.
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How
does your perspective change when you get closer to Jesus?
What are the
5 Things the passage says about People Who Know Jesus
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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Read Ephesians 2:4-5.
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What’s one way
you’ve experienced God’s love? How have you shared God’s love? Jesus
didn’t die to make you religious; He died to bring you to life and set you free.
Read Ephesians 2:14-17.
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What’s one way you’ve seen God bring
peace into a situation or a relationship?
Ephesians 2:19-22.
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How has your life changed because you were included and
connected to something bigger than yourself?
Read 2 Corinthians 4:15.
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What
is your reaction to seeing how Jesus is changing more and more people?
Next
Steps
Identify and take your next steps with Jesus
(do this alone or with others in your group). Share your ideas and Pray and ask about their next steps later in the week.
Possible next steps:
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Pray for the church, staff, and volunteers who will reach
more people in HB.
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Get involved in serving. Talk with your Group Leader about
finding an area in the church to begin serving and talk to the minister or one of
the Elders
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Give to what God is doing at the church and help us reach
more and more people. Give using the
Pray
Thank Jesus for how He’s
changing lives in Napier and how He will reach more and more people through our church.