Discussion Questions:
- Read verse 15. How hard is it to be saved? What’s required exactly? Did you think this involves just saying some “magic words” or something more? If so, what?
- Read verse 16 and react to this statement: I believe the love which God has for me!
- Read verse 17. What are the two reasons we can be confident on Judgment Day?
- Read verse 18 and react to this statement: I will never be punished for any of my sins!
- Read verse 19. Explain why getting this divine order of things right is so important.
- Read 1 John 4:20-5:1. Why do loving God and loving others go hand in hand?
- Read verses 2-3 of chapter 5. What are His commandments? (Note: Consider 1 John 3:23 in your answer.) Also, why are His commandments “not burdensome”? And how are these any different from being under the Old Testament law?
- What does it mean that we now “overcome the world”?
