1. What does it mean to be "chosen before the foundation of the world"? What does that do to your sense of contingency?

2. Adoption in the Roman world meant full legal status and inheritance — not a lesser relationship. How does this reframe your relationship to God?

3. Which is harder to believe — that you were chosen, or that the choosing was truly before anything you did?

1. Redemption is the language of purchasing a slave's freedom. What have you been freed from?

2. What does forgiveness "in accordance with the riches of his grace" mean for how completely you are forgiven?

3. Is there a sin you struggle to believe God has truly forgiven? Bring it here.

1. The Holy Spirit is described as a "deposit guaranteeing our inheritance." What is being guaranteed?

2. What would it mean to live as someone whose future is already secure?

3. Where does your sense of security currently come from — if not from this?

1. Paul describes life before Christ as spiritual death. What was dead in you before God made you alive?

2. "By grace you have been saved through faith — and this is not from yourselves." What does it do to pride when salvation is entirely gift?

3. "Created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance." What works do you sense God has prepared for you?

1. Paul speaks of those who were "far off" being brought near by the blood of Christ. Do you feel near to God? What makes that difficult?

2. The "dividing wall of hostility" has been broken down. What walls remain in your relationships, community, or church?

3. You are part of "a holy temple in the Lord." What does it mean to be the dwelling place of God?

1. Paul prays you would be "rooted and established in love" and know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. What does it mean to know something beyond what can be understood?

2. Slowly read Eph. 3:20–21. What would it look like for God to do "immeasurably more" in your specific situation?

3. Having spent six weeks on who you are, what has changed in how you see yourself?