repentance - Church on the Hill
Application 7.
When you know there is a sin issue in your life, how do you manage it? Do you try to justify it, deny it, seek pleasure, get busy to distract it, blame others, shame yourself, appease others, offer penance, or something else? Why do you respond like that? Are your responses Biblical?
8.
What does seeking repentance do in our lives? Why is it important? How does it lead to our souls being at rest?
week 2 October 16, 2016
9.
Scott Simmerok
lead pastor
REPENTANCE
What has been the most helpful thing you have done to keep your relationship with God healthy?
REVIEW 10. Think of a sin in your life for which you need to repent. Why is it important to make the change, and what will your next step be? (This is
a personal question for everyone with the option to share with your group if you like.)
What is a soul knot? … When we lack the emotional health to react appropriately; we either over respond or under respond to challenges. Where do knots come from? ... Past, negative experiences, and every knot has a ___________.
UNTANGLING THE KNOTS OF YOUR SOUL . . . WHEN YOU ARE THE _________________ 1. You know you are the culprit of your own knots when you feel _____________________.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1-3 (page 852) 2. How do you clear the field? How do you get untangled from the sin that entangled you? Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17; Luke 5:31-32; Matthew 11:20; Mark 6:12; Luke 24:45-47
Repentance
COMMUNITY GROUP QUESTIONS
3. What is repentance?
Getting to Know You
“A heartfelt sorrow for sin, a renouncing of it, and a sincere commitment to forsake it and walk in obedience to Christ.” Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
Intellect - ______________________ with God about my sin
Emotion - feeling ________________ and ________________
1.
Looking back at your notes from Sunday’s teaching, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged you, or confused you?
2.
What is the difference between repentance and confession? How can we know if we are truly repentant? What if you repeat a sin for which you had previously repented?
3.
Think of a struggle you have had with a sin and your subsequent repentance of that sin. Then share, if you would, how that experience changed your life and your relationship with God.
Repentance is different from __________________.
“Yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. “ 2 Corinthians 7:9-11
Action - walking away from sin and into a _______________________ with God.
“Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.” Matthew 3:8 Genuine repentance leads to a ________________ life, not a __________________ life.
4. Where does faith fit in with repentance?
Into the Bible 4.
Read Matthew 3:8. What does the fruit of repentance look like?
5.
Read Hebrews 12:1. Why is it so easy to get entangled in sin?
6.
Read Luke 15:11-32. What does this story teach us about repentance? With which person in this parable do you more closely identify, and why?
Faith - trusting that Jesus has paid for your sin and that _______ saves you, not your merit. Trusting in Christ (faith) and turning from sin to have a relationship with God (repentance) are both a part of salvation. One without the other isn’t genuine repentance. Luke 15: 11-32
(questions continued on back)
When you know there is a sin issue in your life, how do you manage it? Do you try to justify it, deny it, seek pleasure, get busy to distract it, blame others, shame yourself, appease others, offer penance, or something else? Why do you respond like that? Are your responses Biblical?
8.
What does seeking repentance do in our lives? Why is it important? How does it lead to our souls being at rest?
week 2 October 16, 2016
9.
Scott Simmerok
lead pastor
REPENTANCE
What has been the most helpful thing you have done to keep your relationship with God healthy?
REVIEW 10. Think of a sin in your life for which you need to repent. Why is it important to make the change, and what will your next step be? (This is
a personal question for everyone with the option to share with your group if you like.)
What is a soul knot? … When we lack the emotional health to react appropriately; we either over respond or under respond to challenges. Where do knots come from? ... Past, negative experiences, and every knot has a ___________.
UNTANGLING THE KNOTS OF YOUR SOUL . . . WHEN YOU ARE THE _________________ 1. You know you are the culprit of your own knots when you feel _____________________.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1-3 (page 852) 2. How do you clear the field? How do you get untangled from the sin that entangled you? Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17; Luke 5:31-32; Matthew 11:20; Mark 6:12; Luke 24:45-47
Repentance
COMMUNITY GROUP QUESTIONS
3. What is repentance?
Getting to Know You
“A heartfelt sorrow for sin, a renouncing of it, and a sincere commitment to forsake it and walk in obedience to Christ.” Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology
Intellect - ______________________ with God about my sin
Emotion - feeling ________________ and ________________
1.
Looking back at your notes from Sunday’s teaching, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged you, or confused you?
2.
What is the difference between repentance and confession? How can we know if we are truly repentant? What if you repeat a sin for which you had previously repented?
3.
Think of a struggle you have had with a sin and your subsequent repentance of that sin. Then share, if you would, how that experience changed your life and your relationship with God.
Repentance is different from __________________.
“Yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. “ 2 Corinthians 7:9-11
Action - walking away from sin and into a _______________________ with God.
“Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.” Matthew 3:8 Genuine repentance leads to a ________________ life, not a __________________ life.
4. Where does faith fit in with repentance?
Into the Bible 4.
Read Matthew 3:8. What does the fruit of repentance look like?
5.
Read Hebrews 12:1. Why is it so easy to get entangled in sin?
6.
Read Luke 15:11-32. What does this story teach us about repentance? With which person in this parable do you more closely identify, and why?
Faith - trusting that Jesus has paid for your sin and that _______ saves you, not your merit. Trusting in Christ (faith) and turning from sin to have a relationship with God (repentance) are both a part of salvation. One without the other isn’t genuine repentance. Luke 15: 11-32
(questions continued on back)
