Coram Deo Church — Bremerton, WA

Discipleship Questions. 1. How will you grow inwardly in your love and devotion to God through personal study and prayer this year? 2. How will you grow outwardly in Christian community with others in the coming months? 3. How will you grow upwardly in your worship of God? 4. What competing priorities may need to be adjusted in order for you to be more committed to the corporate gathering of God’s...

Discipleship Questions. 1. Why do you think Luke mentions Caesar Augustus and the decree that went out? Why is this important? 2. Luke tells us that a very large group of angels announced the birth of Jesus to poor shepherds. What might the significance of this be? 3. The angels brought the shepherds good news, not good advice. Why is this distinction so important? 4. What other “lords” distract y...

Discipleship Questions. 1. What is your favorite Christmas carol and why? 2. What does this text teach us about the purpose and power of the Holy Spirit? 3. What stands out to you most about Mary’s song? Why? 4. What does Mary’s song teach us about the values of the Kingdom of God?

Discipleship Questions. 1. What stands out most to you from Luke 1:26-38? Why? 2. Consider what Gabriel the angle says concerning who Mary’s baby is. What does this teach us about the identity of Jesus? 3. Read Isaiah 7:14. Consider that those words were written approximately 750 years before the birth of Jesus. How does this affect the way you look at the Bible? The birth of Jesus? 4. Mary respon...

Discipleship Questions. 1. Read Luke 6:27-36. What stands out to you most? What is most confusing or challenging? 2. If you could ask Jesus one question about his words in this text, what would it be? 3. What principles can you take away from this text? 4. What would it look like it you applied those principles to the way you do Christmas?

Discipleship Questions. 1. What are some things that you are thankful for? What are different ways that you can give God thanks for the grace in your life? 2. Have you ever experienced joy during a trial or suffering? How is that joy different than other types of joy you have experienced? 3. How can remembering who God is and what He is like bring you encouragement? 4. In what ways do you need to...

Discipleship Questions. 1. How can religion, the belief that acceptance comes through obedience, keep us from actually knowing God? 2. In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul speaks of the offense of the cross. In what sense is the cross of Christ offensive? Why? 3. What does it mean to “boast in your flesh”? How are you tempted to do this? 4. What does it mean to “boast in the cross”? Why would this pro...

Discipleship Questions. 1. Think of a time when you experienced gentleness, humility, or generosity. What happened? How did it effect you? 2. How do gentleness, humility, and generosity all reflect the heart of Jesus? 3. Which of these three attributes do you think needs the most attention in your life today? 3. In what ways might believing the gospel produce more gentleness, humility, and generos...

*1. What hope does the promise of verse 16 offer a believer? *2. Read Galatians 5:19-25. What is the root of the contrast between the two ways of living described here? *3 Consider the character qualities which are called “the fruit of the Spirit” in verses 22 and 23. What is significant about the fact atet why are called “fruit” in contrast with the “acts” of the sinful nature? *4. Which of the f...

Discipleship Questions. 1. Paul says that the life of a Christian is in many ways similar to a race. How did your race begin? 2. Read Revelation 21:3-5. What excites you most about God’s future? What confuses you most? 3. As we run, there is great danger in falling into the ditch religion (salvation through the law) or the ditch of antinomianism (obedience doesn’t matter). Which ditch do you find...

Discipleship Questions. 1. Have you ever been baptized? Why or why not? 2. Why do you think that Jesus commanded, not merely suggested, that all believers be baptized? 3. Read Romans 6:3-5. What does this text teach us about baptism? Is it a symbol? Does it do something? 4. In what ways is baptism a powerful picture of the gospel?

Discipleship Questions: 1. What does it mean to be an exile and how might seeing yourself as an exile affect the way you view your community? 2. What do you find most difficult when it comes to seeking the welfare of people who oppose you? 3. What unique gifts, abilities, talents, or resources could you invest in our community? 4. In what ways has Jesus fulfilled all that Jeremiah commanded to Isr...

Discipleship Questions. 1. What does it mean to be created in the image and likeness of God? How does this affect the way we view ourselves? Our neighbors? Our community? 2. How can a Biblical understanding of creation transform the way you relate to your job or vocation? 3. Why do you think the church has tended to be silent about issues pertaining to nurturing and caring for the earth? 4. How ca...

*1. How do you see the Trinity at work in these verses? *2. What are some situations in which you especially need to hear again that you as an individual are a child of God? **3. When are you most in danger of living as a slave and not a son? *Taken from N.T. Wrights Galatians study guide. *Taken from Tim Keller’s Galatians study guide.

Discipleship Questions. *1. Think back to your conversion, or the first time you understood the gospel. How did your view of God’s law change? *2. How does knowing God’s law increase your gratitude to Christ? What difference does this make to your affections? *3. Why do you obey God’s law? Do you ever obey it for the wrong reasons? *Taken from Tim Keller’s Galatians study guide.

Disicipleship Questions. 1. In what ways are you tempted to forget the gospel and to look to your own work for the basis of your acceptance with God? 2. How does having righteousness credited to us change the way we see ourselves? Our Christian lives? Jesus Christ?* 3. Paul reminds us that Christ was portrayed to us as crucified. Why is this so important? How can you remind yourself of this truth?...