Q1 – Does Jesus have your highest level of allegiance and loyalty? If not who or what does?
Q2 – When you think about the cross, do you think more about substitution or invitation?
Follow up: why is substitution alone an incomplete picture of the cross?
DISCUSS: “The cross is not just a location where Jesus died for you. The cross is an invitation to come and die with Jesus.”
Q3 – If we could see with spiritual eyes the life that comes on the other side of death, we would never choose sin over Jesus again. How do we cultivate those “spiritual eyes”?
Q4 – What does it look like for you to take up your cross daily and crucify your flesh?
Q5 – In what areas of your life are you trying to grab onto life instead of embracing the cross?
Q6 – How does the life of Jesus reorient your life?