I need your grace to help me be a more thankful man as a living example to my family, my church, and my friendships. Please grant me the grace to be a man of thankfulness. In Jesus’ name, amen. Hear the Word
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1. Would you currently describe your life as spiritually effective, fruitful, and productive? Why or why not? What would you say has prevented you from a life of effectiveness and spiritual fruit? In what ways have you attempted to course correct in the past, if at all? What was the outcome? 2. Take a moment to re-read 2 Peter 1:5-7. Would the people who know you best describe you the way these verses are calling us to live? How do these verses make you feel about yourself? If you would like to be characterized by what Peter is describing in these verses, what do you think is preventing you from the description he’s laying out? What can you do about the gap between who you are and who these verses are describing? Why isn’t it ever going to be about trying harder to be a better man? 3. In what ways does this passage from 2 Peter drive you to call out for the grace of God? Even though this passage may seem to encourage you to simply "try harder," why isn’t it really about your effort and, instead, about remembering who you are in Christ? 4. How has identity amnesia about who you are in Christ affected your day-to-day living at home, work, school, church, leisure time, etc.? If you’ve been given everything you need right here and now to be the kind of husband, father, neighbor, citizen, morally and sexually pure man, etc., why do you think it has been so difficult to live the way God has called you to live? 5. If you’ve been given everything you need to live a life of godliness by the power of his Spirit, and God never calls you to a task without enabling you to do it first, how does the element of thankfulness fit into your perspective and posture as you wrestle through living out the Christian life? Why is thankfulness such an important part of living a godly life? 6. If you’re filled with gratitude and you’ll do anything you can to get all that has been given to you in Christ, how does an achievement-based posture towards God naturally begin to erode in your life? 7. Have you been living as if you are poor in grace when you are truly rich in it? Are you living more with a sense of envy about what you don’t have or a sense of thankfulness about all that God has given you in Christ? How might an attitude of gratefulness transform you from the inside out?
CONVERSATION PROMPTS FOR YOUNG MEN 1. Why do you think it’s so hard for us as men to live lives of continual thankfulness for what God has given us? What gets in the way of you being a thankful person sometimes? How do those
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