Here is a Day by Day guide to learning and applying:
Read: the daily Scriptures and Answer the Question from the sermon.
Create: Create your own questions/comments from the scriptures
Discuss: Talk about your questions and reactions to the scriptures.
5/5/24
TEXT: ROMANS 12:9-21
Memory Verse: Romans 12:4-5
A Disciple...Loves All People, Discovers Identity in Jesus, Deepens Relationship with Jesus.
BIG IDEA:
A life offered to the Lord as a living sacrifice is a life marked by loving one another. The gospel calls us to treat others as Christ has treated us.
Challenge:
1. Be Loved and love people.
What have I done this week to feed my soul, feed others, and feed my flesh?
What stood out to you in the sermon this week?
What did God reveal to you in the Scriptures this week, maybe for the first time?
Scripture Study Tip
What does it say, What does it mean, and How do I apply it to my daily life.
RECAP:
As followers of Jesus, our lives should be marked by love, only because of the love Christ first lavished upon us. In this passage of Romans, we see what a true living sacrifice looks like. The gospel demands love and love demands forgiveness. Loved people love people, forgiven people forgive people, and gospel people grace people.
Read Romans 12:9-13
In this passage of Scripture, we find instructions on how to live a Gospel-infected life. The evidence of our justification is love. As a Jesus-follower, we should be marked by love in all that we do. Through Christ’s atoning sacrifice, God acts to remove the guilt and penalty for our sin, and thus we become righteous, or justified. This occurs by faith alone.
- The only reason we can love others is because Christ first loved us. What does this truth reveal to us about the nature of who God is?
2. What is honor and what are some examples of how we can honor one another?
3. Reread verse 9. What’s does it actually mean to “abhor what is evil” and how can we put action to the second part of that verse – “hold fast to what is good”?
4. What stands out to you about verse 12, “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer”?
Read Romans 12:14
This verse is related to those who persecute us and are outside the Christian family. As believers, we know that we’ll be persecuted (2 Timothy 3:12), and we also know that we will be blessed for it (Matthew 5:10).
5. What does this verse tell us about the character and nature of God?
Read Romans 12:15-21
These verses help us learn how to love all people, both within and outside the church Body. We are called to treat others in the same manner as Christ treated us. Just like we talked about earlier, Jesus set the prime example for us to follow when it comes to loving others.
6. Because harmony is not uniformity, how can we live in harmony with one another in our practical day to day lives?
7. How can studying God’s word deepen our ability to overcome evil with good?
8. Based on Romans 12:9-21, what does the gospel demand of us?
4/28/24
TEXT: ROMANS 12:3-8
Memory Verse: Romans 12:4-5
A Disciple...Loves All People, Discovers Identity in Jesus, Deepens Relationship with Jesus.
BIG IDEA:
ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT SAVED BY THE CHURCH, WE ARE SAVED INTO THE CHURCH FAMILY.
THE BODY NEEDS YOU AND YOU NEED THE BODY.
Challenge:
1. Change your mindset by focusing on Who God is and what He’s done more than on yourself.
2. Please don’t isolate yourself from The Body of Christ.
3. Be a LIVING SACRIFICE for the sake of THE GOSPEL by Committing, Connecting and Serving each other.
What have I done this week to feed my soul, feed others, and feed my flesh?
What stood out to you in the sermon this week?
What did God reveal to you in the Scriptures this week, maybe for the first time?
Scripture Study Tip
What does it say, What does it mean, and How do I apply it to my daily life.
RECAP:
In week 27 of Romans, we looked at Romans 12:3-8. In this passage, Paul fleshes out what it means to be one unified Church body. He explains that while we are not saved by the church, we are most certainly saved into the church family. As part of the church family, we should be utilizing the gifts that God has given us to function properly! While there are many “members”, we are one Church and we need each other.
READ: Romans 12:3
In this verse, Paul warns us to live in humility... Pride is a sin in us by nature, so as followers of Jesus, we should be extra guarded against it. If we see the truth about who we really are, which is black-hearted wretched sinners, then it is impossible to be given over to pride. Because we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, we have no room to be prideful. Everything we have is a gift from God – and we should live in light of that truth.
- Because right thinking about God produces a right response to God, it’s important that we consider what this verse says about who God is before we can see what that means for us. Based on this verse, what can we know about God?
2. Read Proverbs 16:18. How have you seen pride cause destruction in your own life?
3. How can we follow in Jesus’s footsteps and live in humility daily?
READ: Romans 12:4-5
While we are not saved by the church, we are certainly saved into the church family. Just like your body has several different parts that work together to keep you alive and functioning properly, we – as a church – are called to work together in order to function as God intended. Paul even explains that though there are many “members”, we are one body in Christ. This calls for unity among the Church and for “members” of the church to use the gifts that God has given us for His glory.
4. In verse 4, Paul explains that though there are many “members”, we do not all have the same function. How can we practically use the gifts that God has given us individually to work as one body?
5. Pay close attention to the phrase “in Christ”. We hear it all the time, but what does this phrase actually mean?
6. Why is the Church so important?
READ: Romans 12:6-8
In this passage of scripture, Paul lays out the reason we should use the gifts that God has given us. If the foot tried to do what the heart was made to do, it would most certainly fail. In the same way, we should be operating within the church by using the gifts that God has specifically given to us. Paul’s focus in these few verses is to stress that each of our individualities is greatly valued to the church as a whole!
7. Do you have gifts that you aren’t currently using to serve the church? If so, what is it that is holding you back from using those gifts?
