SERMON | Myth Busting: We Got This

B-Sides

Scripture: Romans 7:15-25
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.


So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!


Questions

What?
1) How’s everyone doing? Check in with the group.
2) What does sin mean to you?

So What?
3) When are you able to be vulnerable with what sin you struggle with?
4) Do we have a hierarchy of sins? If you think that we do, do you think it fits within the model given by Paul?

Now What?
5) Can you feel within yourself the paradox of being made for good, but infected with the capability for evil? How does that show up in your own life?
6) Have you ever felt defined for your sin? Have you ever defined someone else for their sin?
7) Dawn writes “we hurt those we love the most?” Do you agree/disagree? Why?

“ I may not have power over some of my sin, but leaning on the strength of Jesus, I can be better.”
—Rev. Dawn Hyde