GSCC Small Group
Bible Study
Goal: Understand the amazing grace of God.
Introduction Question: How would your life be different if God stopped to be gracious to you?
Foreword: Last week we learned about God’s incomparable great power in resurrecting Jesus. This week, we will learn the incomparable riches of grace of God.
Passage: Ephesians
2:1-10
1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Questions for
discussion:
1. Read verses 1-3, which description you can relate to most before you were saved? How so?
2. Glance
back at
3. What does it mean that we have been “made alive”, “raised”, and “seated” with Christ?
4. How does this union with Christ affect your daily life?
5. Is it difficult for you to receive God’s grace as a gift of God?
6. What are some good works God is involving you doing right now?
Prayers:
1. Praise God for your salvation.
2. Pray for the salvation for one of your non-believer friends.
3. Pray for the Volley ball open gym outreach event.