DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Where do you see the slavery of legalism in your own life? What impact does it make?
How does the sometimes hard truth of the gospel actually set you free from slavery to sin?
Why is it so important to constantly be on guard against legalism and keep returning to the gospel?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the difference between the sonship of Christ and our sonship?
What meaning does the adoption of God hold for us?
What does it mean to be “heirs” of God?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why is the promise of God unbreakable?
How does the text [Gal.3:16] connect the “offspring” to Jesus Christ?
What is the function of the law as a “guardian”?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What does it mean to be “justified” in a biblical sense, and why is it so important?
Why are we prone to lean on the law for our justification? Also, what is the actual “heretical element” of legalism; and what is NOT legalism?
Antinomian, moral relativism, libertarian permissiveness, irreligious... How do these practices stand against the gospel, and betray the grace of God?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the meaning of the two words “sovereignty” and “providence”? How are they related to each other, and what is their relevance to us the people?
Have you, or do you, “own” anything so hard that you’ve managed to push God out of sight? What might that be? (Personal will, body, family, possession, future plans, other people, church, etc.)
Do you now understand your place as a “steward” of God in Christ? What features or functions of a steward will you strive to take on more intentionally?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How does the interaction between Peter and Paul highlight the importance to following the truth of the Word, not the positions of people?
What does it look like for you to walk in step with the truth of the gospel today?
When have you been tempted to place too much trust in people or structures as opposed to the truth of Scripture?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
According to the sermon, when is the approval of men as “the right hand of fellowship” good and necessary in gospel ministry?
How do we “separate” the politics from the ministry of the gospel?
Where does the subject of “the poor” fit in the discussion of power and influence?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Do you tend to be a “people-pleaser”? If so, to what degree (1-10)? Describe the pros and cons of people-pleasing attempts in your own experience.
Describe your first-person experience with God’s presence and/or truth that increased your spiritual conviction or resolve.
When you feel convicted inside to pursue God in a certain way or service, how does the church and community affirm that conviction? In other words, is your “internal calling” matched or affirmed by the “external calling”?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the main theme of the Book of Galatians according to the sermon?
What can we do about the “shocking tendency” for sinners to degenerate the gospel?
How does the idea of “anathema” draw a sharp line of distinction between orthodoxy and heresy?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What does the sting of death look like in this world?
How does the Gospel remove the sting of death?
What difference does this make in your life individually and in the life of your church?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why is it so important to have a sound, biblical understanding of the nature of the Lord’s Supper?
How does the Lord’s Supper function as one of the ordinary means of grace available to us in Christ?
How does the physicality of the Lord’s Supper enrich your life of hope in the future coming of Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Why is praying the “greatest act of faith”?
What does it mean to “pray well”? What are the components of a good prayer life mentioned in the sermon?
What is the correlation between persistent prayer, fasting and revival?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the relationship between God and His Word according to the sermon?
What are the corresponding definitions of the key doctrines on Word of God such as inerrancy, infallibility, plenary inspiration, perspicuity?
What two functions of the Word of God is highlighted in the message?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What “grand difference” does faith make in the view of things?
How does gentleness (a) honour God, and (b) serve the fellow men?
In the sermon, what distinction is made between “patience” and “self-control”?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does the occasion of Christmas provide the necessary context for understanding the “patience” of believers?
How does the gospel inform Christian kindness?
What betrays the “goodness of God”, and how do sinners repeatedly make this mistake?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What makes love supremely good and powerful?
How can the joy of Christ’s coming translate to actual joy in your life?
How can your peace be anchored in the peace of Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What should be the motivation for giving to the church?
How does God enable us to give and be generous?
What “principle” is at work for those who are gifted with or striving to be generous?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does Jesus being the true ‘house of the Lord’ shape the direction of all your thoughts and prayers?
How does the presence of God among us through the Spirit of Christ encourage you in your daily fight against sin?
What makes the steadfast love of God so steadfast? Who does it all depend upon?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What does the number “12” typically represent in the Bible?
What is the value and dignity of women as viewed through the lens of the gospel?
How can the church be restored to its “whole company of the elect”?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?