GALATIANS DVD C- GROUP STUDY 7 WEEKS

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1 GALATIANS DVD C- GROUP STUDY 7 WEEKS This is a 7 week study where your group will study the Book of Galatians with a specific style laid it out on the DVD. Make sure you have the DVD and these questions each week, and you are good to go! INTRODUCTION (Week 1) This is the longest of the videos, about 15 minutes, so hang in there. Most of the videos are 8 to 10 minutes, but for this first one, I just encourage you to start well, don t be afraid to leave a question out there and endure some awkward silence, if you wait long enough, eventually someone will answer: Watch video first and then go to the questions:

2 1) What kind of student were you in school, did you study a lot, at all, straight A s, flunked out, etc.? 2) What is your background with Bible study? What scares or intimidates you about Bible study? 3) What would you say to someone who said, why study the Bible, don t you go to church, don t you hear the Bible at church, why do you have to do more? 4) What is going to be the biggest obstacle for you keeping up with this Galatians study? 5) There are so many ways to study the Bible, but really encourage your group to, at the least, come next week with some verses and nuggets from Chapter 1 of Galatians.

3 GALATIANS 1 (Week 2) 1) First, ask people to be honest, how did they do? Did they study, did they take notes, go around the circle and get answers from each person. Be encouraging not condescending, but help them realize that you will be asking them if they spent time studying since last week. 2) The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO WEEK 2 NOW 3) How do you think the gospel is perverted today? How would you explain the gospel? 4) Ask group to talk about their upbringing, when they were a kid or

4 teenager, what would you have said is the key to going to heaven? How many people thought you had to earn it? Who taught you that? 5) The chapter mentions approval. Whose approval do you seek, I mean, in your past or present life, whose human approval do you crave? Why can t we serve Jesus and please men? 6) Paul said he left his former way of life, what have you left for Jesus? What lifestyle, what habits, what people, what goals, what image, what have you left? 7) Can someone summarize Paul s conversion story? If not, read it in Acts 9. Why do you think God chose Paul to be the one to carry his gospel to the world? After some discussion

5 as to the why, have someone read I Timothy 1: for some insight. 8) Remind to not read, but actually study chapter 2 for next week. GALATIANS 2 (Week 3) 1) 1. The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO NOW 2) Think from the world s perspective, can t they make the case that they are really free and we are the ones enslaved by rules? 3) Honestly, do you feel free, do you ever envy the world s supposed freedom? How have we gotten this backwards?

6 4) Did anyone grow up in a church context that promoted a lack of freedom? How did this impact your relationship with Jesus? 5) This chapter mentions that God ignores external appearance, do you believe that? If He ignores is it, why don t we? 6) Verse 10 mentions the poor, specifically to remember them, what do you think that means? How can your group live that out? Make a plan to DO something! 7) Wonderful man of God, Paul, publicly confronts and rebukes Peter. This is a big deal, what was the situation, and WHY do you think Paul was so upset? 8) If someone came up to you tomorrow at work and said, Hey,

7 you re a Christian, I decided to read the Bible and I read Galatians 2:20 and it said that Christians have been crucified with Christ, what in the world does that mean? What would you say? 9) Is it convicting to you that trying to do good for God in order to earn salvation is highly offensive to God? Discuss the way chapter 2 ends and what your personal response should be. GALATIANS 3 (Week 4) (I know my head is cut off for the first few minutes, sorry, don t laugh at me!) 1) The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down

8 and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO NOW 2) Paul finally mentions their crime, what is it and have you ever been guilty of it? Explain. 3) Galatians mentions that we are justified, or righteous by faith, how does faith make us righteous? 4) David mentioned on the video that if you think you never match up or are never good enough for God to love you that you are depending on human effort, which is evidently a big deal. What do we do about this? 5) What is the purpose of the law according to chapter 3? 6) Talk about your salvation experience.

9 7) Did baptism follow your decision to put your faith in Jesus, have you ever clothed yourself with Christ? GALATIANS 4 (Week 5) 1) The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO NOW 2) This week we studied about being a son/daughter and not a slave, have you ever felt like more of a slave to God, meaning more like an outsider

10 than actually family? Why do you think that is? 3) Amazing truth this week, that the Spirit actually allows us to approach God as our Father, catch this, just as Jesus did! What keeps you from approaching God as your Father, or even Daddy? If your group struggles to answer #3, or you think this question will help, give them multiple choice as far as what keeps them from approaching God as Father: a. my own sin b. human father issues c. the view of God I learned growing up was not of a loving Father d. lack of faith that God really allows me to approach him as a daddy e. don t really know, I just feel too distant from God to approach him as a Father

11 4) This chapter mentions losing your joy, try to come up with a definition of biblical joy. Now go around group and ask everyone to rank themselves on joy, 1 being I am totally absolutely joyless, and 10 being I am oozing with so much joy I am making a mess. 5) Paul seems to be implying that the Galatians, or some of them at least, are going backwards in their faith. Open up, share a time in your life where you went backwards in your faith. What caused that? How can we as a c- group help each other from going backwards in our faith, or is that even possible? 6) Who are Hagar and Sarah and why on earth does it matter?

12 GALATIANS 5 (Week 6) 1) The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO NOW 2) When you hear people talk about freedom in Christ (at least before this study), has that caused more excitement or confusion? Why? 3) So what in the world are we free from, and how is that connected with circumcision? And why is Paul making castration references? 4) How can try to earn God s love possibly separate or alienate you from Jesus?

13 5) How is the freedom in Galatians 5 abused? 6) Here we go, now Paul starts telling us no to sin. Doesn t the Bible telling us to not indulge sinful nature sound a lot like rules and putting you in a box than it sounds like freedom??? 7) If someone asked you 5 years ago what the role of the Holy Spirit is in a Christian s life, what would have been your honest answer? How about now? 8) Do you feel like you are living by the Spirit? a. Never b. Occasionally c. Not sure d. Often e. Daily

14 9) What do the two lists at the end of Galatians 5 tell you about your life as far as living in the Spirit or living to indulge the sinful nature? 10) What does the Spirit give us hope to do that we would be hopeless to do without the Spirit? GALATIANS 6 (Week 7) 1) The first and main part of the study is going around and have people share the nuggets they wrote down and the verses they rewrote and why, do that now. WATCH VIDEO NOW 2) The section on reaping and sowing seems so clear-cut, so black and white, why do you think it starts with saying,

15 God cannot be mocked. What is the connection with reaping/sowing and mocking God? 3) Are you starting to get a picture of what pleasing the Spirit looks like in your life? 4) What scares you about living life by and thru the Spirit? 5) How can your group implement an intentional method of doing good to each other on a regular basis? 6) Overall, talk honestly about how this study of Galatians has affected your relationship with God and with your view of Bible study.