Author: Main Office

10. How has God’s grace empowered you to live in self-discipline and purpose, instead of focusing on your own interests and appetites?
11. What obstacles stand between you and self-control (a more structured, disciplined walk with Christ)?
What is one step you could take this week toward being more spiritually disciplined?
12. How can our group support one another in living the kind of grace-transformed life we are called to in Titus 2?
Prayer Requests

Doing life together

May 27, 2018
Restraint
Proverbs 28:25
1 Kings 3, 11
LifeHack: a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way.
Main Point: Without restraint we end up
by our
self-con·trol
ˈˌself kənˈtrōl/
noun
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Solomon assumed the didn’t to him.
Disentangle:
Unburden:
A wall I may need to build:
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What should I do with what I’ve heard today?

May 27, 2018
1. What is the most meaningful class or seminar you have ever taken—whether in school, church, or somewhere else?
2. What made this class or seminar impactful, and how did it inspire you to think or live differently since that time?
read titus 2:1-5.
3. Why do you think Paul chose to emphasize these behaviors in the older men and women of the church? And why “older” men and women?
4. What does Paul’s teaching in these verses tell us about the importance of relationships with regard to spiritual formation?
5. What are some of the practical implications of living a self-controlled and responsible life?

GROWTH GROUP HOMEWORK

Thinking things through

Digging deeper

6. What are the obvious and maybe not so obvious ways people in our culture demonstrate a lack of self-control?
read titus 2:6-10.
7. What does it mean to “make the teaching about God our Savior attractive” in verse 10 (some translations say, “adorn the teaching of God”)?
How can believers adorn the gospel message through their conduct and relationships in the working world?
8. How have you seen a Christian worker’s consistent honesty and loyalty to an employer become a testimony to the gospel’s beauty and power?
How is this related to self-control?
READ titus 2:11-15.
9. What did Paul say our experience with God’s grace trains us to do?
How would you define worldly passions and ungodliness?