Bible Study - AFTER LIFE - You\'re Dead - And That\'s a Good Thing
Sermon-Based Bible Study – April 18, 2021
- What is something God has done for you that you are thankful for or are celebrating? How have you experienced God’s love and faithfulness this week?
- Where are you experiencing stress, anxiety or discouragement? How would you like to see God move in your life or in the life of someone close to you?
- We are in a season of elder selection and transition. Five elders are rotating out after completing their term of service: Clarke Watkins and Gary Braugh from the Vista Ridge campus; and Ryan Nienstadt, Tom Pitts and Jason Schumacher from the Farmers Branch campus. The elders have placed elder six candidates before the congregation for prayerful consideration and approval: Mark Arnold, Marvin Baker and Bruce Long at the Vista Ridge campus; and Eric Billingsley, Chris Goodspeed and Chris Rosenbaum at the Farmers Branch campus. Let’s be praying about this.
- What did you hear in this week’s sermon that was new or particularly interesting? Did anything stand out to you as puzzling or troubling?
- Read Galatians2:20. What did Chris mean by saying, “if you’re in Christ, you’re a dead man?”
- If you profess to have relationship with Christ, when’s the last time you thought of yourself as being crucified with Christ? Do you think of your old self as “dead?”
- Read Romans 6:3-13. What stands out to you in this passage as a new thought, or is particularly interesting to you? When you think about how you are living and operating right now, what would you put in this blank – “The life I now live in the body, I live by ___________”
- How would your life change this week if:
- You thought of your ego, desire for approval, greed, or whatever you associate with your “old self” as being crucified with Christ?
- Every day you count yourself dead to sin and alive to God?
- You refuse to offer any part of yourself to sin and instead offer yourself to God and every part of your life as an instrument of righteousness?
- What is a simple, next step you could take in obedience to what the Spirit is saying to you through this time in the Word? Who would benefit, or be interested in hearing about what you’ve learned in this study?