Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Colossians 2:6-7), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion…

• The way you live the Christian life is the same way you began in it: receiving Christ Jesus the Lord by faith as he is taught in the Scriptures. In what way did you receive Christ? What was your attitude toward Jesus before/after? What did you bring to the relationship? What did you relinquish? What did you receive? What changed? What does it mean to continue in your relationship with Christ in the same way you began? What does it mean to “walk in him (Christ),” not merely beside him or behind him? How does the life of a believer differ fundamentally from the life of an unbeliever?

• How have you been “rooted” in Christ? How are you continually rooted in him? How have you been “built up” in Christ? How are you continually built up in him? How does your faith grow? By what means? How do you avail yourself of these means?

• Gratitude is a proper response to a gracious gift. Hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ with faith produces abounding, overflowing, uncontainable thanksgiving. Does the Gospel of grace evoke abounding thanksgiving in you? Can you often and easily detect joyful gratitude for Jesus in your own heart? Is participating in Christ’s life with God enough for you? When you don’t detect gratitude in your life, what might it indicate about how you are relating to God?