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September 6th 2026

Ice Breakers: If you were forced to make a living by being an artist, what kind of art would you do?

1. Think of someone (an author, pastor, public figure) whose life turned out not to match their public persona. How did that affect what you'd learned from them — and what does that reveal about why Paul cared so much about defending his own integrity to the Thessalonians?

2. Paul kept preaching even after being "shamefully treated" in Philippi. What's something you've avoided saying or doing recently because it would cost you socially, professionally, or relationally?

3. Whose approval do you find yourself chasing most naturally — and how does that show up in your actual decisions this week?

4. Are there sins in your own life you've relabeled as virtues because they're common or celebrated around you (the sermon used greed reframed as "ambition" or being "driven")? What would it look like to call it what it is?

5. Who in your life has loved you sacrificially — showing up and staying without needing something back? What made that love recognizable as real?

6. Read Philippians 2:6-8. Where is God currently inviting you to empty yourself for someone, even at real cost, the way Christ did for you?

7. Who is watching your life right now — a coworker, a child, a younger believer — and what standard are you actually setting for them, whether you intend to or not?

8. Paul didn't just live rightly, he "exhorted, encouraged, and charged" others toward it. Is there someone you've been quietly modeling godliness in front of but haven't spoken to directly? What's stopping you?

9. "You confess that you are not [worthy], then turn and follow Jesus." Where in your life right now are you relying on your own performance rather than resting in what Christ has already accomplished?

10. Of the four questions this week (cost, pleasure, giving, pace) — which one exposed the most in you? What's one concrete step you can take in response, remembering it flows from grace already given, not grace you're trying to earn?