Steve Stratos | Galatians 4:8-20

1. Have you ever been in a disciple-making relationship? What was it like?

2. How intentional are you in pursuing spiritual formation?

3. Do you pursue relationships from the head or heart? Explain.

4. What or who has the most influence in your spiritual life?

5. Name 5 necessities for your spiritual development. How are you pursuing them?

Steve Stratos | Galatians 3:15 - 4:7

1. How have you been the beneficiary of a promise?

2. Explain the difference between performance and promise as a means for the blessing.

3. What is the difference between the Abrahamic Covenant and the Mosaic Covenant? Why?

4. What are the ramifications psychologically, sociologically, and emotionally when you live and attempt to get your identity from the Mosaic covenant?

5. Paraphrase Romans 7:7-12.

6. What did you do to receive “All Spiritual Blessings” in Ephesians 1:3?

Ryan Moffat | Galatians 3:1-14

1. What did the Spirit say to you through God’s Word this week?

2. What is the Holy Spirit saying to you? How do you need to listen and obey this week?

3. When you think about your life, where is the deepest place that needs to be transformed? Are you actively looking to God, His grace, and His Spirit to transform and redeem those places?

4. Can you think of people who have experienced deep transformation? What about those stories is instructive to you? What can you learn from others transformation stories?

LORD’S DAY, HEIDELBERG CATECHISM

What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. What must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort? Three things: first, how great my sin and misery are; second, how I am set free from all my sins and misery; third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance.

Ryan Moffat | Galatians 2:11-21

1. What did the Spirit say to you through God’s Word this week?

2. We talked about the Gospel being not only the A, B, C’s of our Christian faith but that it’s actually the A-Z of our faith. How can you and I (and SCC) keep our focus on the redeeming, saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross Have you drifted from that core truth? How do you need to re-orient your life around the gospel?

3. What “groups” are often uninvited to the table in Christian Culture? How can the Church thoughtfully engage those far from God while inviting them not only to Christ’s table but also to surrender fully to Jesus Christ?

4. Who do you want to prayerfully invite to the concert next week?

Dustin Smith | Galatians 2:1-10

1. Spend a moment re-reading Galatians 1, and then 2:1-10. How does Galatians 2:1-10 build upon what Paul has already written?

2. Did anything stand out to you in the sermon?

3. Does the term “slave of Yahweh” or “slave of the Lord” provoke anything within you?

4. What systems, devices, or structures have you seen followers of Jesus trust in rather than Jesus himself? How have you done this?

5. Throughout this text, Paul shows how we must Partner, Preserve, and care for the Poor. How does relying on systems and devices neglect these points Paul makes?

6. What would it look like to have healthy structures but also not neglect our personal responsibilities in caring for the poor in Sisters?

Steve Stratos | Galatians 1:10-24

1. How has scripture played into your Christian journey?

2. What experience(s) have you had to confirm your journey?

3. Describe other followers of Christ who have been influential in your life and why?

4. Explain the need and balance of objectivity and subjectivity.

5. How has God shown up in your life as influence recognized by others?

Ryan Moffat | Galatians 1:1-10

This week we encourage you to read through the book of Galatians as a life group. Before reading it together OUT LOUD (6 chapters) we encourage you to pray as a group and ask God to reveal to you and your group what He wants to say through the Scriptures. Enjoy hearing God's word read aloud together as a community. After completing the reading of Galatians, spend the rest of the time discussing what stood out and Paul's main points of emphasis.

Ryan Moffat, Steve Stratos | Hebrews 3:13

1. In light of Hebrews 3:13, who do you want to encourage this week? How can you affirm and spur them on?

2. Who has spoken life into you? What would it look like to circle back and thank them for their investment into your life?

Steve Stratos | Matthew 7:15-20 & 11:16-19; Luke 19:1-10; Romans 5:8

1. Jesus changes people through friendship before he changes them through correction. What does that mean to you in application?

2. What is the tree you have climbed to get a better look at Jesus?

3. How and why does grace offend people who are trying to earn God’s favor?

4. What do you think Matthew 11:19 represents? How would you apply it? What are the questions you would ask around it?

5. Luke 19:10 has a world of meaning. What is the story you would tell around this about the who, what, and why of God and humanity?

Steve Stratos | Proverbs 17:17, 18:24

1. How have you experienced friendship in the past?

2. What have you been intentional about in your friendship?

3. What building blocks of friendship have you done well and not so well?

4. Who has been a cheerleader for you that you need to call and thank?

5. What has Jesus and the gospel done in you, as a friend, that has changed your approach to friendship?