The Purpose-Driven Life (Day 15-21)

(Chapter 15) What benefits on earth and in eternity will we receive when we are spiritually born into God’s family?

• Get to be with God forever and be completely changed to be like Christ

• Be freed from all pain, death, and suffering

• Be rewarded and reassigned positions of service and get to share in Christ’s glory

• All of them

(Chapter 16) The most important lesson God wants you

to learn on earth is how to love. Why is the best use of life is love?

• Life without love is really worthless

• Love will last forever

• We will be evaluated on our love

• All of them

(Chapter 16) When is the best time to love?

• When you have an opportunity, because people are always need help

• When you want to do, because circumstances will not change

• Now, because you don’t know how long you will have the opportunity

• Wait until you can if it is not emergency

(Chapter 17) Attaching to a living, local church, what will you share alongside what the church helps you?

• Identifies you as a genuine believer

• Christ’s mission in the world

• Moves you out of self-centered isolation

• Develops your spiritual muscle, keeps you from backsliding

(Chapter 18) What experiences do people have in real fellowship?

• Authenticity, mutuality

• Sympathy, mercy

• All of them

• None of them

(Chapter 19) What are some choices we should make and some risks we should take to cultivate real fellowship and a loving community?

• Honesty, humility, confidentiality, and frequency

• Forgive, gossip, respect, and frequency

• Honesty, sympathy, attack, and confidentiality

• Humility, authenticity, conflict, and courtesy

(Chapter 19) What are characteristics of biblical fellowship?

• Share our true feelings, encourage each other, support each other

• Forgive each other, speak the truth in love, admit our weaknesses

• Respect our differences, not gossip, and make group a priority

• All of them

(Chapter 20) What is NOT included in restoring broken fellowship?

• Always take the initiative

• Confess your part of the conflict

• Attack the person, not the problem

• Cooperate as much as possible

(Chapter 20) What are steps to restore a broken fellowship?

• Talk to God before talking to the person

• Sympathize with their feelings

• Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution

• All of them

(Chapter 21) To protect your church, what is one thing you must refuse?

• Be realistic in your expectations and support your pastor and leaders

• Choose to encourage rather than criticize

• Listen to gossip

• Practice God’s method for conflict resolution

• Focus on what we have in common, not our differences