Before We Get Started

For our discussion today, we will be using the sermon series discussion guides. If you would like to follow along you can access this discussion guide on the website at mosaicchurchaustin.com and then select “community group resources” in the menu options.

Prayer

Because the primary goal of our time together is to establish relationships and learn how to walk with one another in all that God has called us to be and do, we’d like to begin by praying for one another. So, does anyone have anything you’d like us to pray for or anything to share regarding how you’ve seen God moving in your life that we can celebrate together?

This Week’s Topic

Arise

Today’s Topic

The Pattern of Grace

Discussion Questions

The Pattern of Grace Claims Our Allegiance

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Galatians 2:19-21

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

How do repentance and forgiveness play a part in the pattern of God’s grace in the world?

How does our understanding of God’s grace help us obey God’s commands?

What does allegiance to God look like in your life?

The Pattern of Grace Controls Our Inner Life

Romans 6:20-21

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

1 John 3:19-20

This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 

Given that God knows everything about you, past, present, and future, what do you think God likes about you?

What do the people you know experience when you offer them your best self?

What practices or perspectives help you cultivate a healthy, faith-centered inner life?

The Pattern of Grace Counters Our Culture

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 

Galatians 3:26-29

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

In what ways has your faith benefited or increased you spiritually, physically, and emotionally?

In what ways has your faith humbled you spiritually, physically, and emotionally?

What does our culture prize and admire, and how does that align or contrast with what the gospel prizes or admires?

The Pattern of Grace Recreates Our Future

Romans 6:23 

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 17:1-3

Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 

How has God’s grace offered you a safe place to find hope for the future?

What are the benefits of receiving eternal life?

What is one dream you have that requires you to trust more deeply in God’s grace?

Closing Time

Take some time to share any prayer requests and then pray for one another.