I’ll Fly Away (Small Group Lesson)
March 19th, 2009Open
Please share your response to one of the following with the group.
- Apart from Bible characters, if you could be related to a famous person, who would you choose? Why?
- Who was your favorite teacher in elementary school? Your hardest teacher?
Study
Read Galatians 3.21-28 and discuss the following:
- In what ways do you see the “Law” as a “prison”?
- What were God’s intentions in the Law?
- How is “faith” a release from “prison”?
- Why do you think people wanted to go back to the “Law”?
- It was familiar territory
- It was easier for them
- Family/Peer Pressures
- They trusted themselves more than God
- They misunderstood about Grace
- How does Christ use our faith to break down the barriers we set up?
- What is so important about being Abraham’s descendants?
Apply
- What has been your experience with rule-keeping? When has it been good? Bad?
- How has your faith grown from rule-keeping to faithful obedience? What is the difference? How have you accomplished it?
- What can you do personally to expand the kingdom of God beyond “us”?
