Children born into this world are new little humans.
What concerns do you have for our children today?

How can we help the children of our church know what Jesus is calling them to?

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” 3 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” 4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!” —John 3:1–4 (NIV)

What does it mean to be born again?

What part do you think the Spirit plays in our new birth?

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. 20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. —Ephesians 4:17-21 (NIV)

These Gentile Christians were basically being told not to be Gentiles anymore. Maybe a better way to say it is that they are now Christians who happen to be Gentiles.

Which identities that you are connected to might come into conflict with your identity as a Christian?

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. —Ephesians 4:22–24 (NIV)

The word translated self in the NIV is the same Greek word for man or human. This passage is saying that we should put off our old humanity and put on a new humanity.  Ultimately, we are to become new humans with a new mentality.

How has your thinking changed since you have become a Christian, since you have become a new human?

Seeing ourselves as new humans basically means we have new identities when we are born again into Christ.

What kind of impact do you think our identity has on our behavior?