Find Your Story in God’s Story
Our Spiritual Identity
Why is it important that our identity be in Christ?
John 1:12 (NIV) To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. This week we are looking at our spiritual identity so we can understand who we really are and who we were made to be.
Share Your Story As a child, where did you get your identity? How has that changed as you have gotten older? Are there parts of your life that you feel sort you into a particular social caste?
Paul was emphatic in Galatians 2 that the identity he’d built for himself never managed to set him right with God. For all his achievements and all the privilege he was born with, the best he could offer wasn’t good enough. That matters because all of us, at our core, have a desire to be right with God. At the same time, none of us can build an identity that’s good enough for one another, much less for God. Fortunately God was willing to lift us higher than the greatest heights we could reach and was willing to adopt us into his family. In His doing so, we can have a new identity as sons and daughters.
The Kingdom Prayer
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Finding Direction Through the Lord’s Prayer
READ ROMANS 8:14-17
Connect & Grow
What does adoption into the family of God offer us? What does it mean to be an heir and have an inheritance?
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NorthlandChurch.net/TheKingdomPrayer Afterward have someone read the discussion questions in the “Hear God’s Story” section and start the conversation.
How has your group — your spiritual family — helped you live out your spiritual identity?
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READ 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21
Hear God’s Story READ GALATIANS 2:18-21 Read the passages together, and then discuss the following questions. What sort of struggles do you think the first Christians dealt with? What about the disciples?
How does the world see people? As followers of Jesus, how do we see people? How did God set us right and restore our relationship with Him? What does it mean, as a member of the family of God, to be an “ambassador” (NIV), or “representative” (MSG)? How do you invite people to enter into relationship with God? Who are people in your life who could use that invitation?
How were they able to fulfill those roles despite their limitations? When Paul said, “So I quit being a ‘law man’ so that I could be God’s man” (Gal. 2:19, MSG), what did he mean? What has Christ’s life as told to us in Scripture shown you? What attributes define Jesus to you? What does it mean to live “by faith in the Son of God”? What identity is Jesus freeing you to?
Looking for more questions and reflections so you can keep digging deeper? There’s even more to this week’s study available on Northland’s apps or at NorthlandChurch.net/Studies.
AUGUST 12-14, 2017
DIGGING DEEPER
Matthew 6:9, 11-13
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