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. Pastor Randy said, "Jesus isn’t part of creation, He’s the Author of it, and everything was made by Him, through Him, and for Him." Where do you most tend to live like something else is the “center” of your life—and what would it look like to re-center that area on Christ this week? 

2. “In Him all things consist / are held together.” When your life feels like it’s coming unglued, what are your usual “glues” (control, planning, distraction, money, etc.) and what’s one practical way to entrust that pressure-point to Jesus as Sustainer? 

3. The sermon emphasized that Jesus is the Head (source) of the Church not pastors, programs, or personalities. Where have you seen “body life” work well (interdependence, unity, shared mission), and where do you see it breaking down? What’s one step toward a healthier connection to the Head? 

4. Paul reminds us of our “before”: alienated, hostile in mind, doing evil deeds. Without getting stuck in shame, how does remembering your “before” deepen gratitude and humility today? 

5. Reconciliation is God’s completed work, not our ongoing attempt to earn peace. Where do you still slip into “performing” for God and what would it look like to live from peace already purchased? 

6. “Holy, blameless, above reproach” points to our future standing and it also shapes how we live now. What’s one habit, relationship pattern, or private thought-life area where you sense God calling you to walk in that “set apart” direction this week? 

7. The text includes a warning/encouragement: continue in the faith… not moved away from the hope of the gospel. What pressures (doubt, suffering, busyness, disappointment, online noise, etc.) most try to shove you off-center and what anchors (Scripture, community, prayer rhythms) help you stay steady?