October 12, 2025
Christ For Us
Romans 5:8-10 Get to Know the Group
What is the most unusual or funny thing you’ve given up for someone you care about—or that someone's given up for you? God’s Words of Grace Why does Paul emphasize our condition before Christ saved? _________________________________
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How does knowing that Christ died for us while we were still sinners affect our humility or gratitude? ________________________________________________________________________________________ How does justification unite us as a church? Why is it important that the church’s foundation is not tradition or programs but the gospel? ________________________________________________________________________________________ What role do you play in preserving gospel clarity for the next generation? ________________________________________________________________________________________ Paul says we were reconciled while we were enemies. What does that tell us about God’s character? ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Find the Oasis for Life In what ways do we sometimes minimize the cross or treat it lightly? ________________________________________________________________________________________
What does living with resurrection hope look like in daily life? ________________________________________________________________________________________ (Write the names of requested prayers on the lines below) Closing Prayer: Heavenly Father, we thank you for your amazing love, demonstrated while we were still sinners. We thank you for Christ’s blood, by which we are justified. We thank you that we justly stand reconciled through his death, and that his resurrection secures our hope now and forever. We also offer up in prayer to you those who are on our hearts _____________, _______________, ______________, ____________. Bless our church, not to our glory, but to you. Strengthen us for mission, give us boldness to speak of Christ for the ungodly. Strengthen us for community, to live out our reconciliation. Strengthen us for the future, confident in the life of Christ. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.