Lesson 2: Receive New Life – BORN AGAIN

Memory Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:17

Sharing Time: Share with each other how your experience of sharing last week’s story with someone. Take a few minutes to pray for the people that have heard last week’s story.

Tell (read) the Story: John 3:1-16

Ask: What does this passage say about God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)?

Tell (read) the Story Again: John 3:1-16

Ask: What does this passage say about people?

Retell the Story: Ask for one or more to retell this story, with the group’s help.

Ask: What applies to you, that you could put into practice this week?

Ask: Who can you tell this story to this week? Share with us who you can share this story to this week and let’s pray for each other for God directed opportunities to share this story.

Summarize: BORN AGAIN is hard to understand because it doesn’t fit in with our natural experience. Birth is a beginning. When we receive God’s SALVATION, something happened to us spiritually, inside us. Our old, inner self died and a whole new inner self was “birth” in us. This experience is what Jesus taught as being BORN AGAIN. This is the beginning of our NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. Our physical self is still the same, but we are a whole new person inside. That new spiritual self inside us is now in the process of changing us from the inside out. Congratulation, you are now on an exciting new life’s journey. It is the journey of learning to live your NEW LIFE IN CHRIST.