Our Past | Justification

1. Read verses 1-6. What are things Paul says he could have put confidence in? What are ways we put “confidence in the flesh”?

2. What are ways you have experienced the “surpassing worth of knowing Christ” (8)? Describe what that is like for you.

3. What role does faith play in counting things as loss to gain Christ? How would you explain it to someone else?

4. What does it mean to have the righteousness of God? What are the implications of that for your identity and lifestyle?

5. What does it look like to share in Christ’s sufferings? How does knowing “the power of his resurrection” (10) help in that endeavor?