The Bridge Church
Life's Biggest Questions - Week 5 - How Do I Live?
May 18, 2025
Locations & Times
Bridge Church
2410 N River Rd, Venice, FL 34292, USA
Sunday 7:45 AM
Sunday 9:30 AM
Sunday 11:15 AM
The goal is not success, not goodness, not happiness, but holiness.
Holiness = Set Apart Living
Holiness = Set Apart Living
Holy living is a response to God’s grace.
Holy living is the key to overcoming sin.
Holy living reveals God to the world.
MY NEXT STEP TODAY IS:
I need to receive Jesus Christ as my personal Savior for the first time.
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I need to be baptized.
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I need to attend Starting Point.
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I need to join a serve team.
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I need to join a small group.
https://www.thebridgevenice.com/bridge-groups
I need to receive Jesus Christ as my personal Savior for the first time.
https://thebridgevenice.churchcenter.com/people/forms/500390
I need to be baptized.
https://www.thebridgevenice.com/baptism
I need to attend Starting Point.
https://www.thebridgevenice.com/starting-point
I need to join a serve team.
https://www.thebridgevenice.com/serve
I need to join a small group.
https://www.thebridgevenice.com/bridge-groups
Dig Deeper:
1. What are some answers you might hear when asking someone “How should we live our lives”? Would the answers vary? Why or why not?
2. Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m overall a good person”? What do you think they mean when they say that?
3. How does our culture try to define how we should live? Provide examples.
4. Read 1 Peter 1:13. Why must our minds be ready for action? What action is Peter referring to? What does it mean to be “sober-minded”?
5. As Peter continues, what does he say to set your hope “completely on”? What is “the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”? How would you explain this grace to someone else?
6. What might others put their hope in to guide them on how they should live?
7. Does setting your hope require action on your part? Why or why not?
8. Read 1 Peter 1:14. What is the purpose of obedience? Why does obedience sometimes have a negative association? How does being obedient lead to positive outcomes?
9. What does it mean to “not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance”? Define the words in this passage to restate it.
10. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, describe where your “former ignorance” led you. How is that different now?
11. Why might we still conform to those ways even though we don’t want to?
12. Do you believe that God knows what is best for you? Provide evidence in your life when you’ve seen this.
13. Read 1 Peter 1:15-16. Why does holiness sound impossible or unattainable? What other words do we use for holiness?
14. What does the word holy actually mean? Why is it so important to understand the true meaning of holy, especially in this passage?
15. How are we to be set apart and holy? What does set apart living look like?
16. Why should we refuse to shape our life around lesser things or focus on our own desire to drive our decisions? What happens when we live for something greater?
17. Why is holy living a response to God’s grace?
18. Reread 1 Peter 1:13. What is the “therefore” there for? What does Peter share before this? What are we to respond to?
19. Read Romans 6:16. What two options does Paul share that we can be obedient to? Why, then, is it, at times, difficult to choose who you obey?
20. Describe examples of how putting our own desires before God’s desires may be portrayed as ultimate freedom but really are anything but that.
21. Read Hebrews 12:14. How are others drawn to God? Why are they drawn to Him through this?
22. What details can you share with someone who might ask you, “How do you live”?
Live It Out:
Are you allowing God to shape you into who He wants you to be? Embrace the more that you were made for.
This isn’t about perfection or legalism, it’s about living set apart and embracing the fullness of what God wants for you. You were made for more than just chasing your desires and fleeting success and happiness. As followers of Jesus, we are called to move beyond the fleeting pleasures of this life, and to live holy, set apart lives in order that we might honor God and reveal Him to the world. You were made for more than success or goodness or happiness, you were made to be like God, to be holy. This week, notice when you are settling for less instead of the best that God has for you. Pray to God, asking Him to do a work in and through you so that you can life your life set apart. Spend time with God, leaning into those areas in your life you need to give over completely to Him.
If you don’t have a relationship with Jesus, you know that all of the things you have tried to satisfy yourself with have ultimately come up empty. The goal is not success, not goodness, not happiness, but holiness. Something deeper and exponentially more significant than your individual happiness or pleasure is revealed about you and to you in Christ, by grace. Have you given your mind fully to that? Have you truly considered what the cross says about you? That Jesus loved you enough, that you were valuable enough, for Christ to die in your place, and by that death to offer you forgiveness, relationship, new life, and deeper meaning by grace. Have you set your mind on that? Is your hope found there? Today, you can step into a relationship with Him so that you can begin being reshaped into who He wants you to be.
1. What are some answers you might hear when asking someone “How should we live our lives”? Would the answers vary? Why or why not?
2. Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m overall a good person”? What do you think they mean when they say that?
3. How does our culture try to define how we should live? Provide examples.
4. Read 1 Peter 1:13. Why must our minds be ready for action? What action is Peter referring to? What does it mean to be “sober-minded”?
5. As Peter continues, what does he say to set your hope “completely on”? What is “the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ”? How would you explain this grace to someone else?
6. What might others put their hope in to guide them on how they should live?
7. Does setting your hope require action on your part? Why or why not?
8. Read 1 Peter 1:14. What is the purpose of obedience? Why does obedience sometimes have a negative association? How does being obedient lead to positive outcomes?
9. What does it mean to “not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance”? Define the words in this passage to restate it.
10. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, describe where your “former ignorance” led you. How is that different now?
11. Why might we still conform to those ways even though we don’t want to?
12. Do you believe that God knows what is best for you? Provide evidence in your life when you’ve seen this.
13. Read 1 Peter 1:15-16. Why does holiness sound impossible or unattainable? What other words do we use for holiness?
14. What does the word holy actually mean? Why is it so important to understand the true meaning of holy, especially in this passage?
15. How are we to be set apart and holy? What does set apart living look like?
16. Why should we refuse to shape our life around lesser things or focus on our own desire to drive our decisions? What happens when we live for something greater?
17. Why is holy living a response to God’s grace?
18. Reread 1 Peter 1:13. What is the “therefore” there for? What does Peter share before this? What are we to respond to?
19. Read Romans 6:16. What two options does Paul share that we can be obedient to? Why, then, is it, at times, difficult to choose who you obey?
20. Describe examples of how putting our own desires before God’s desires may be portrayed as ultimate freedom but really are anything but that.
21. Read Hebrews 12:14. How are others drawn to God? Why are they drawn to Him through this?
22. What details can you share with someone who might ask you, “How do you live”?
Live It Out:
Are you allowing God to shape you into who He wants you to be? Embrace the more that you were made for.
This isn’t about perfection or legalism, it’s about living set apart and embracing the fullness of what God wants for you. You were made for more than just chasing your desires and fleeting success and happiness. As followers of Jesus, we are called to move beyond the fleeting pleasures of this life, and to live holy, set apart lives in order that we might honor God and reveal Him to the world. You were made for more than success or goodness or happiness, you were made to be like God, to be holy. This week, notice when you are settling for less instead of the best that God has for you. Pray to God, asking Him to do a work in and through you so that you can life your life set apart. Spend time with God, leaning into those areas in your life you need to give over completely to Him.
If you don’t have a relationship with Jesus, you know that all of the things you have tried to satisfy yourself with have ultimately come up empty. The goal is not success, not goodness, not happiness, but holiness. Something deeper and exponentially more significant than your individual happiness or pleasure is revealed about you and to you in Christ, by grace. Have you given your mind fully to that? Have you truly considered what the cross says about you? That Jesus loved you enough, that you were valuable enough, for Christ to die in your place, and by that death to offer you forgiveness, relationship, new life, and deeper meaning by grace. Have you set your mind on that? Is your hope found there? Today, you can step into a relationship with Him so that you can begin being reshaped into who He wants you to be.
Reading Plan:
Monday: 1 Peter 1:3-9
Tuesday: 1 Peter 1:10-12
Wednesday: 1 Peter 1:13-14
Thursday: 1 Peter 1: 15-16
Friday: Romans 6:15-18
Saturday: Hebrews 12:14-15
Monday: 1 Peter 1:3-9
Tuesday: 1 Peter 1:10-12
Wednesday: 1 Peter 1:13-14
Thursday: 1 Peter 1: 15-16
Friday: Romans 6:15-18
Saturday: Hebrews 12:14-15