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 perspective and a commitment to forgi...

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 brother/sister? Without revealing any...

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 believers having regular, loving confro...

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 gratitude signal? 5. Why is it so ha...