Week 4: What is Sin?

Why is it so important to know what sin is?
What does Shalom mean?
What are some of the ways the Bible talks about sin?
What does it mean to say that sin includes our motives? give example
"Sin is finding your identity in anything other than Jesus" How does this statement relate to your own life?



What is the difference between the sin of commission and the sin of omission?
What does it mean to have a break in relationship with God?
Do you see a break in your own relationship with God?  What would it look like to have that break healed?



SONG LYRICS:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/lecrae/indwellingsin.html

PASSAGE(S)  OF THE WEEK:
"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23
"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness" 1 John 3:4

Week 3: Who is God?

Why is answering the question "who is God" so important?
How is the Christian God different from other religions?
What does it mean to say that God is holy?



What comes to your mind when you think of who God is to you?
Do you see God as personal? why or why not?
When we think of who God is should that make us excited and passionate?
Are you excited and passionate about God? Is there something in your life that might need change?

SONG OF THE WEEK:


SONG LYRICS:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimmyneedham/graceamazing.html

PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16

Week 2: Reliability of the Bible

Why is the amount of manuscripts important when talking about the reliability of the Bible?
Why do you think it is important to study the history of Christianity?
Do you think of the Bible as history, or just stories?


Why is the resurrection important to the reliability of the Bible?
Why is it so important that so many people claimed to see Jesus after His death?
Would Christianity be true if Jesus didn't rise from the dead?

SONG OF THE WEEK:




SONG LYRICS:
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/1033315.Citizens%20-%20I%20Am%20Living%20In%20A%20Land%20Of%20Death.html

PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:14-17

Week 1: Christians and the Bible

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How as Christians should we treat reading the Word of God?
What are ways we should not approach the Word of God?
Who's help do we need in order to understand God's Word?



What is the only perfect thing on the earth?
What are the two different ways to view the Bible?
What is the correct way to view the Bible?

Harvest Glasgow's view on the Bible:
We believe the Scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in their original writings. We believe the 66 books of the Old Testament and the New Testament are God’s complete and sufficient revelation and therefore carry God’s authority for the total well-being of mankind (Psalm 119:97-104; Psalm 119:160; Matthew 5:18; John 5:46-47; John 10:35; 2 Timothy 3:15-16).

SONG OF THE WEEK:

LYRICS TO SONG:
http://www.rapgenius.com/Propaganda-excellent-lyrics

 PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

"The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure,making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure,

enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward." Psalm 19:7-11