These questions are a guideline for your personal or small group study based on Sunday's sermon passage. Feel free to study and meditate on the passage more deeply. ​​

1. How does truly believing that your identity is settled in Christ change the way you approach obedience? Where are you still trying to “earn” what has already been given?

2. The command to “put on” compassion, humility, meekness, patience, and forgiveness assumes we have a choice between the old self and the new self. What situations most tempt you to operate in the “old operating system”? What would it look like to consciously “put on Christ” in that area this week?

3. In your relationships, how can you tell when love is missing, even if other virtues appear present? What does cross-shaped love look like in your real life, not just in theory?

4. Share a time when you sensed God’s peace guiding a decision, or the lack of peace warning you. What practices help you hear that more clearly?

5. How would your marriage, parenting, or closest relationships change if you viewed them primarily as discipleship environments under Christ rather than personal fulfillment arrangements?

6. How does viewing your work as worship reshape your attitude toward difficult bosses, unseen labor, or tasks you dislike?

7. If someone observed your life this week, your tone, your work ethic, your home life, where would they clearly see Christ ruling? Where might they struggle to see it?