Who Can Have Eternal Life? (1 John 1:1-3; 3:23-24; 5:11-13)


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  • How have you seen God working in your life this past week?

  • What difficulties are you experiencing in life? How may we help?

  • How did you apply last sessions discovery? What happened?

  • With whom did you share last sessions discovery? What was their response?

 

Instructions:

Please use the following steps to guide your discovery of God’s truth in the passages below. Need to review the Group Guidelines?

 

Discover

Step 1-Participants take turns reading sections of the passage (clarify new words/terms)
Step 2-One person reads the entire passage out loud while the rest listen
Step 3-A participant retells the passage in his/her own words (others add their thoughts)

 

Who Can Have Eternal Life? (1 John 1:1-3; 3:23-24; 5:11-13)

1 John 1:1-3

1We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us. 3We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:23-24

23And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us. 24Those who obey God’s commandments remain in fellowship with him, and he with them. And we know he lives in us because the Spirit he gave us lives in us.

1 John 5:11-12

11And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.


Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois, 60188. All rights reserved.

 

Ask/Answer:

  • What do you see in this passage?

  • What does this passage mean to you?

  • What do you like/not like about this passage?

  • How does this passage change the way you see God/people?

 

Respond: If this is true...

  • How should it change the way you live?

  • With whom will you share today’s discovery?

 

Close

  • Decide when the group will meet again

  • Close in prayer (for needs mentioned above)​

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