Immanuel Church

1. What are some of the common ways people around you deal with being wronged or cheated? 2. If you are wronged, deprived, or cheated in some way what’s your first response? 3. What are some of the attitudes and motivations revealed in your own heart as you consider your first responses when wronged? 4. How does a recognition of your own sinfulness help you resolve conflict? How does an eternal pe...

1. Why is it important for Christians to judge each other? 2. How should Christians interact with sinners? 3. What reasons are there to treat sin with grave importance? 4. How should a Christian deal with a sinning Christian? 5. What steps should be taken? 6. Why is it important to have accountability in your life? Who keeps you accountable? 7. Have you ever had to correct a friend or Christian br...

1. Describe a time when someone lovingly corrected you. How did it help you repent of your sin? 2. What do you think about Bonhoeffer’s statement that ““Nothing can be crueler than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”? 3. How does the practice of beli...

1. Why are arrogance and pride so detrimental to your personal life and to the life of the church? How does a proper understanding of God’s grace destroy pride and arrogance? 2. How does pride distort our view of self and others? 3. How does pride lead us to despise God’s grace and forgiveness in the lives of others but assume it for ourselves? 4. If grace leads to gratitude, what does a lack of g...

Read 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 1. Does the term “servant of Christ” apply only to vocational pastors or all Christians? 2. How does the pastor’s identity as a servant and as a steward shape how you view your pastors? 3. How should a pastor’s identity (servant and steward) shape their practice? How does this shape what is essential? 4. How does the phrase “It is the Lord who judges me” (v 4) stir inside...

1) What great privilege do we have? (being the children of God and the Temple of God.) What then is our great responsibility? 2) What does it mean to say that the church is the temple of God and that the Holy Spirit dwells in us? 3) What are some examples of how people might "defile" or “destroy” God's temple (the church) in Corinth? Today? 4) How does this passage challenge the divisions and fact...

Read I Corinthians 3:10-15 1. The assumption in this passage is that every believer is to help build the church. How have you been engaged in that process? Why do you think Paul commands believers to "take care" in this matter? 2. In verse 11 Paul declares that Jesus Christ is the foundation of the church. What are some implications of this truth? Is a church really a church if it does not preach...

1. According to 3:1-3, what makes a believer a spiritual baby? What happens when the church begins to associate spiritual maturity with knowledge rather than godly character? 2. What has God given to the church so that believers can grow into maturity? 3. Is it surprising that Paul highlights envy and strife as signs of spiritual immaturity? Why are they so dangerous to us as individuals and to th...