This Is True: WK 6 - GROUP GUIDE

You Will Know the Truth: How Jesus Rewrites Our Way of Knowing

INTRODUCTION: The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.

OPEN:  Icebreaker: Share about a time when you genuinely thought you understood something — a situation, a person, a belief — only to discover later that you were completely wrong.
How did that realization feel? What changed afterward?
 
Follow-up: If you’re comfortable, share one way your understanding of God or faith has changed in the last 5–10 years. What prompted the shift?

SCRIPTURE READING
Read aloud:

• Acts 9:1–19 (Paul’s encounter on the Damascus Road)
• John 8:31–36 (“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”)
• Colossians 1:15–20 (Christ as the true image)
• 1 Corinthians 13:12 (“We see through a glass dimly…”)

 
Listen for themes of blindness → sight, encounter, Jesus-centered truth, and transformation.

CONTEXT & SETUP (Read Aloud)
We end this series where every Christian journey begins — not with certainty, but with encounter. Paul was utterly convinced he saw truth clearly. He was sincere. He was zealous. He was committed. And he was totally wrong. His certainty needed to collapse before he could truly see.
 
Jesus does not give him new information; He gives him new sight.
 
This is the core of Christian epistemology: we do not come to truth by mastering arguments, but by abiding in Jesus. Truth is not something we achieve; it is someone we encounter. And encountering Jesus rewrites everything — how we see God, how we see others, how we see ourselves, how we interpret Scripture, how we participate in the world.
 
This week we reflect on what it means for Christ to be not just the bearer of truth but the center of all knowing — and how that truth leads us into freedom.

HEAD: Explore the Text

1. In Acts 9, what part of Paul’s encounter surprises you most? His certainty? His blindness? His vulnerability? His surrender?

2. Jesus confronts Paul not with arguments but with presence. What does this teach us about the nature of Christian truth?
3. How does John 8 redefine the relationship between abiding, knowing, and freedom? What stands out to you in Jesus’ sequence?

4. In Colossians 1, Paul describes Christ as the “image of the invisible God.” How does this shape the way Christians discern truth?

5. Why is humility essential for “knowing the truth”? What kinds of truth become distorted when humility is absent?

HEART: Personal Reflection

1. Where in your life has Jesus rewritten your way of seeing or knowing? What brought about that transformation?

2. Are there areas where you feel spiritually “blind,” confused, or uncertain? How might Jesus be inviting you to surrender those areas? 
3. Where have you held on too tightly to a belief, assumption, or interpretation that Jesus may be trying to soften or reshape?

4. What does “freedom” mean for you right now? Where do you long for liberation — in your thinking, emotions, identity, or relationships?

5. Has your pursuit of truth ever been shaped more by fear than by Jesus? How does His presence speak differently into those places?

HANDS: Practice This Week
Practice: A Three-Question Prayer of Surrender

Each morning this week, pray:

• “Jesus, where am I still blind?”
• “What truth are you trying to free me with?”
• “What must die in me so a new way of seeing can be born?”

 
Then spend two minutes in silence, allowing the Spirit to respond — not through analysis, but through presence.
 
Invite one trusted person into your discernment:
Share one thing Jesus reveals this week and ask them to pray with you.
 
Encourage group members to share next week how this practice shaped them.


FINISH WELL: Bring It Home

1. What part of your old way of knowing is Jesus inviting you to let go of? (old narratives, old fears, old certainties, old self-protection)
2.  What new truth — about God, others, or yourself — is Jesus inviting you to embrace?
3. What would freedom look like for you in this next season of faith? What kind of person is Jesus forming you into?

CLOSING PRAYER (Leader or Participant Reads)
Jesus, our Truth and our Freedom,
Open our eyes the way You opened Paul’s.
Remove the shadows of our old ways of knowing.
Give us new sight, new humility, new wisdom.
Set us free from every false story, false certainty,
and false identity that keeps us from You.
Rewrite our vision and remake our hearts
so we may see the world through Your eyes.
Amen.