1. Last week you formulated a specific plan for personal growth. How are you doing?

2. How can you do the above without putting ‘confidence in the flesh’? (vv.3,7)

3. How does Paul view false teachers? (v.2; Galatians 1:6-9) How would you answer someone who claimed that such a view is unloving and intolerant? (Ephesians 4:15)

4. What did Paul have to be "proud" of from his past? (vv.4-6) Are these things necessarily bad? Why or why not?

5. How have you leaned too heavily on status or accomplishments as sources of confidence?

6. What is the antidote for trying to achieve salvation through human effort? (vv.7-8; Matthew 13:44-46)

7. What three aspects of salvation do you see in verses 9-11?