Read Philippians 3:12-21 ESV I am using the ESV today but feel free to use your most often read version of the Bible too!
When you think of the phrase pressing into Christ or straining toward the prize what is the first things come to mind?
Has anyone in this life obtained perfection, why? List Biblical evidence to back up your answer?
What are the commands in this passage? List them.Look up the following words in an English dictionary. Write out the definitions for the following words in accordance with the context of the passage.
Perfection
Straining
Imitate
Citizenship
In what areas in your own life are you pressing into Christ?
How are you imitating Christ both in your actions and in your thoughts?
What other scriptures in the Bible use the phrase ” forget what lies behind” and what context is the phrase used in?
How can you personally forget what lies behind and press into Christ?
Where is your citizenship in regards to Christ?
Recount how Paul became a citizen of Heaven?
How about your own citizenship story?
Think! Reflect! Seek!
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