This Week's Bulletin
February 22 | Jesus Christ and No Other
Romans 3:21-31
Discussion Questions
Three general questions for digging deeper:
- What does this text teach us about God?
- What does this text teach us about ourselves?
- If this text is true, what should we do to obey this teaching?
Questions specific to the February 22 sermon from Romans 3:
- Paul says, “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law… through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe” (vv. 21–22). In what ways both individually and communally do we try to justify ourselves or presume ourselves to be right before God outside of Jesus Christ?
- Paul teaches that in the cross God shows himself to be both “just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (vv. 25–26). How does the cross of Christ both justify God and justify us to make us right with God?
- “Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded… For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (vv. 27–28). Where might pride or comparison still show up in your spiritual life? If boasting is excluded, what would humility, unity, and welcome look like more fully in our church or small group?