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Can you think of a time when a personal failure made you feel stuck or like you had lost your sense of direction or worth? How did you handle it at the time?
Explore It
- What are some common ways people try to deal with failure? Which of those responses do you relate to most?
- Read John 18:15–18, 25–27. How does Peter’s failure unfold? What emotions might he have experienced?
- Read John 21:1–3, 9. What do these verses show us about Jesus’ approach to restoring Peter? How does grace show up around this second fire?
- Read Acts 1:8 and Acts 2:1–4. What kind of transformation do we see in Peter by the third fire? What does this say about God’s power at work beyond failure?
Apply It
- What would it look like for you to view failure as a “fall into grace”?
- What’s one step you could take this week to walk in the power of who God has called you to be—on the *other side* of failure?