​TOPIC : Identity in Christ

Questions:

• What is identity?

• What is not identity?

• Where does Scripture say identity comes from?

• What fruit should secure identity produce?

• Can identity teaching ever be misapplied?

• Does secure identity increase agency or decrease it?

• How did Jesus demonstrate secure identity?

 

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TOPIC: Grace

Questions:

• What is grace?

• What is grace not?

• What does grace empower?

• What does grace never excuse?

• How do grace and truth work together?

• What fruit should grace produce?

• How is grace commonly misunderstood?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Freedom

Questions:

• What are believers free from?

• What are believers free for?

• Can freedom exist without responsibility?

• How did Jesus model freedom?

• What fruit should biblical freedom produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Sonship / Adoption

Questions:

• What does adoption mean biblically?

• How does sonship differ from performance?

• How does a son think differently from a servant?

• What fruit should sonship produce?

• How did Jesus model sonship?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Agency

Questions:

• What is agency?

• Where do we see agency in Scripture?

• How did Jesus honour agency?

• What happens when agency is strengthened?

• What happens when agency is diminished?

• Can authority and agency coexist?

• What fruit does healthy agency produce?

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TOPIC: Being Heard

Questions:

• Why is listening important?

• How often did Jesus ask questions?

• What happens when people feel unheard?

• What fruit does genuine listening produce?

• What does it mean to hear someone before answering?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Truth and Grace

Questions:

• Why must truth and grace remain together?

• What happens when grace exists without truth?

• What happens when truth exists without grace?

• How did Jesus hold both together?

• What fruit should be present when both operate together?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Conflict

Questions:

• How did Jesus handle conflict?

• What is healthy conflict?

• What is unhealthy conflict?

• What fruit should conflict resolution produce?

• What happens when conflict is avoided?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Reconciliation

Questions:

• What is reconciliation?

• How is reconciliation different from forgiveness?

• Can reconciliation occur without truth?

• What role does repentance play?

• What fruit should reconciliation produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Peace

Questions:

• Is peace simply the absence of conflict?

• What is biblical peace?

• How is peace different from avoidance?

• What fruit should peace produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Shepherding

Questions:

• What does a shepherd actually do?

• Why does Scripture use shepherd imagery?

• How do sheep know they are being shepherded?

• What fruit should shepherding produce?

• How did Jesus shepherd people?

• What happens when teaching exists without shepherding?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Accountability

Questions:

• What is accountability?

• Who is accountable to whom?

• Why are leaders accountable?

• Can accountability exist without relationship?

• What fruit should accountability produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Leadership

Questions:

• What is leadership for?

• How did Jesus lead?

• What is servant leadership?

• What happens when leaders stop listening?

• What fruit does healthy leadership produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Shepherding vs Managing

Questions:

• What is the difference between shepherding and managing?

• Can a manager shepherd?

• Can a shepherd manage?

• How did Jesus lead people?

• What fruit distinguishes shepherding from administration?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Mentoring

Questions:

• What is a mentor's purpose?

• How did Barnabas mentor Paul?

• What fruit should mentoring produce?

• Does mentoring increase dependence or maturity?

• What makes a healthy mentor?

• But what if I never have a mentor?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Function vs Title

Questions:

• Why does Scripture emphasise function?

• Why do churches emphasise titles?

• What confusion occurs when titles dominate?

• How would I recognise a shepherd without a title?

• What fruit is produced when function matters more than title?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Fivefold Ministry

Questions:

• Why did Christ give these gifts?

• What problem do they solve?

• How do they equip the saints?

• What happens when one gift dominates?

• How are gifts different from titles?

• What fruit should healthy Fivefold ministry produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Equipping the Saints

Questions:

• What does "equip" mean?

• Who is supposed to do ministry?

• Does equipping create maturity or dependence?

• How did Jesus equip His disciples?

• What fruit reveals effective equipping?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Calling

Questions:

• What is calling?

• How does calling develop over time?

• How does God prepare people?

• What biblical examples reveal development?

• What fruit should calling produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Development

Questions:

• How does God develop people?

• Why does development often take time?

• What role do wilderness seasons play?

• What has suffering taught God's people throughout Scripture?

• What fruit indicates healthy development?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Spiritual Maturity

Questions:

• How does Scripture define maturity?

• What is often mistaken for maturity?

• What fruit reveals maturity?

• How did Jesus demonstrate maturity?

• How does discernment relate to maturity?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Discernment

Questions:

• What is discernment?

• How is discernment developed?

• How does discernment differ from suspicion?

• Why must everything be tested?

• What fruit does healthy discernment produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Root of Bitterness

Questions:

• What is the context of Hebrews 12?

• How does Deuteronomy 29 help define the phrase?

• What is a root?

• What is fruit?

• How does hidden corruption affect a community?

• What fruit may indicate an unhealthy root?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Community Health

Questions:

• What does a healthy community look like?

• What fruit should healthy communities produce?

• What fruit indicates something is wrong?

• How do communities drift?

• What role does grace play in community health?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Mutual Submission

Questions:

• What is mutual submission?

• How is it different from control?

• How does Jesus model it?

• What fruit should mutual submission produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Authority vs Influence

Questions:

• Are authority and influence the same thing?

• How did Jesus exercise authority?

• What happens when authority exists without relationship?

• What fruit distinguishes healthy authority from unhealthy authority?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Christ as Head of the Church

Questions:

• What does it mean that Christ is Head?

• What belongs to Christ alone?

• What dangers arise when human leaders occupy His place?

• What fruit should emerge when Christ remains central?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Agency in the Ministry of Jesus

Questions:

• How often did Jesus ask questions?

• Why did Jesus ask questions?

• How did Jesus invite participation?

• How did Jesus honour people's choices?

• What fruit did this produce?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Wisdom

Questions:

• What is wisdom?

• How is wisdom different from knowledge?

• How is wisdom developed?

• What fruit does godly wisdom produce?

• How does James 3 define wisdom?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Discernment and Multiple Perspectives

Questions:

• Why did God create a Body rather than one voice?

• What are the dangers of a single dominant perspective?

• How does humility strengthen discernment?

• What fruit is produced when perspectives are weighed carefully?

 

 

 

TOPIC: What Fruit Reveals

Questions:

• Why does Scripture focus on fruit?

• What fruit was Jesus looking for?

• What fruit reflects God's character?

• What fruit should concern us?

• What roots produce healthy fruit?

 

 

 

TOPIC: Integration & Reflection

Questions:

• What themes keep appearing?

• What truths have become clearer?

• Where do I still have questions?

• What fruit do I long to see in the Body of Christ?

• What has God been highlighting throughout the journey?

• What areas of growth is He developing in me?