Series: Romans
Romans 12
Life Group Questions
Getting to Know You
1. If you could wake up tomorrow with any skill, what would you choose? Why?
2. If you had 25 hours a day, how would you spend your extra hour?
Digging Deeper:
3. Read Romans 12:1-2. How did Pastor Gary explain how to “offer our bodies” to God? How do you do this?
4. Read Romans 12:1-2. How have you conformed to the world? How can you conform to be more like Jesus?
5. One of the first steps to understanding our spiritual gifts and abilities is increasing our self-awareness. Self-awareness is the ability to understand who we truly are and what God has made us to be. As you go through the verses below, write down principles that could help someone grow in self-awareness.
Proverbs 20:5, Romans 12:3, Psalm 26:2, 1 Timothy 4:16
Which of the principles above do you need to work on the most?
Keeping It Real
6. One of the biggest ways to grow your self-awareness is being open to feedback from other people. Who, if anyone, is allowed to speak into your life?
How receptive would you say you are to others’ feedback about you?
7. How can we pray for you this week?
Message Note
Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, on account of God's mercy, to. . .
offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Do not be conformed to this world.
But be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:1-2
What does it mean to present our bodies as a living sacrifice?
-Our bodies
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
What does it mean to not be
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2 Corinthians 4:4
What does it mean to
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What flows out of believers when we offer ourselves as living sacrifices, grow, and renew our minds?
A gift is simply a . . .get over !
Spiritual giftedness does not equal .
Our gifts are to be used for the , not just for .