Life Group Questions

July 19, 2026

All-Inclusive Worship:

Why We Worship Jesus

These first seven questions deal with worshipping Jesus because His sacrifice paid our

way out of death and into life.

Read:

1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own

possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of

darkness into his marvelous light.

1. What does 1 Peter 2:9 tell us God’s people were made to do?

Read:

1 Peter 1:3–5, 8-9 (ESV)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy,

he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus

Christ from the dead,

4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be

revealed in the last time.

2. How does this perishable, defiled, and fading life help you worship Jesus?

3. When you miss loved ones who are far away, how does that affect your worship?

Read:

Philippians 2:5–13 (ESV)

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be

grasped,

7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point

of death, even death on a cross.

9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above

every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and

under the earth,

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

4. Jesus paid an unimaginable price for our salvation. How does that affect how you

perceive your value?

5. How does this high price help you worship?

Read:

1 Corinthians 15:17-22 (ESV)

17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen

asleep.

21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

6. Think about the resurrection of Jesus. Also, think about how your life would be

different His resurrection never happened. Share your thoughts with the group.

Read:

Revelation 5:8–10 (ESV)

8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders

fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which

are the prayers of the saints.

9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its

seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every

tribe and language and people and nation,

10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on

the earth.”

7. The living creatures and twenty-four elders are worshipping Jesus because He

has slain so that His blood could pay the ransom for our sins. How does this

worship in heaven shape your thinking about why we worship Him here on earth?

This second set of questions deals with the wonderful benefits we have in this life

because of what Jesus did. These things should remind us to worship.

Creation

Psalm 19:1 (ESV)

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

John 1:1–3 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was

made.

8. Share an experience you had in God’s creation that moved you to worship Jesus.

What made it special?

Innocence

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us

from all unrighteousness.

9. What sin have repented of? How did repentance change your life?

10. How has innocence helped you worship?

Presence

1 Corinthians 6:19 (ESV)

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you

have from God? You are not your own,

Ephesians 5:18 (ESV)

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

11. When does the presence of the Holy Spirit affect your life? How does He help

you worship?

People

1 Corinthians 4:15–16 (ESV)

15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I

became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Philippians 1:3–5 (ESV)

3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,

5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

12. Share about a mentor, a spiritual father or mother, in your life who helped you

develop spiritually.

13. Share about a partner, someone on your level, who encouraged you spiritually.

14. How have mentors and partners helped you worship Jesus?

Purpose

Matthew 28:19–20 (ESV)

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you

always, to the end of the age.”

15. Jesus has assigned us the purpose of making disciples. How does this

assignment help you worship?

Peace

John 14:27 (ESV)

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.

Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 16:33 (ESV)

33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will

have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

16. Have experienced the peace of Jesus? Are you experiencing it today? How does

peace in Jesus help you worship?

Wisdom

James 1:5 (ESV)

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without

reproach, and it will be given him.

17. Share a time when you sought wisdom from God and He led you to do

something different than you would have otherwise done. How did wisdom from

God change the way you worship?

Heaven

John 14:2–3 (ESV)

2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go

to prepare a place for you?

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself,

that where I am you may be also.

18. Use your spiritual imagination to help you describe what you think your room in

heaven will be like. What will it have? What will it not have? How does this help

you worship.