Change Your Motivation

Community Group Discussion Questions
Week of Feb 1
2 Peter 2:1-10a

OPENER

• How have you seen God move in your life since we last met as a CG?
• What’s a New Year’s resolution you abandoned pretty quickly?

DISCUSSION

• Read 2 Peter 2:1-3 What’s a lie people believe about themselves or God that drains their motivation to change?
• Where do you notice yourself trying to shape God around your desires?
• Read 2 Peter 2:4-7 Which warning in this passage hits you the hardest (angels, flood, Sodom)? Why?
• What’s one area of life where you’ve been “putting off” change?
• Read 2 Peter 2:8-10 Where do you see God’s grace pulling you out of sinful patterns, toxic environments, or bad habits you wouldn’t escape on your own?
• Growing as a Receiver: Where do you sense God inviting you to receive His love or power instead of trying to prove yourself?

ACTION STEP

• What’s one step you can take to change your motivation?

SERMON RESOURCES

• When Angels Sinned
• The Pleasure of Pleasing God
• Why Obedience?

SERIES RESOURCES

• 2 Peter Summary
• Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands