With Easter comes the promise of new life. Spend time with your group reflecting on the new life God has given you over the past year. First, read aloud a few of the verses below. Then answer the following questions.
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22–23
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. Romans 7:6
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you. Ephesians 4:22
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Revelation 21:5
Questions
- What new life has God brought into your life over the past year?
- What has God been making new over the past year?
- What signs of new life to come do you see in your life right now?
