Discussion questions for Life Groups based on the Sunday sermon.
(Updated weekly)
January 19, 2025
*** This guide intentionally has more questions than your group could reasonably discuss in one meeting. Feel free to pick and choose questions that best encourage, challenge, and instruct your particular participants.
Read Genesis 1:26-27.
1. We are made in the image of God. What does it mean to be a steward over creation? What does it mean to have a relational nature? Where do morals and ethics come from?
2. Consider the statistics Rob mentioned that 33% of Evangelicals believe abortion should be legal and that only 52% of practicing Christians believe life begins at conception? Why do you think this is so? What role does culture play in our values? What does this say about evangelical and common Christian practices in relation to the sovereignty and moral character of God and the authority of His written Word?
3. Roman 12:2 tells us to not “be conformed to this world” but instead to be “transformed by the renewing of our mind.” How can we practically apply this in relation to the messages we hear from culture and in the training and discipling of our own families? What specific steps can we do to make this happen?
4. Consider how you find your identity. If you believe that God created you in His image, does that impute dignity to you? If you believe you are a result of random chance, a byproduct of countless deaths, what does that impute to you?
5. Rob spoke about the “battle for truth”. How do we guard ourselves and our families from the influx of humanistic information that is coming at us from all quarters (TV, movies, public education, social media, etcetera)? How do we know what is true? What is our standard, and do we know the true standard as well as we know the cultural standard?
6. Are all people made in God’s image? What people do you find it more difficult to treat with dignity? Why? Do you give dignity and respect to anything that is not made in God’s image? Why does that thing get treated better?
7. Christian caring and Christian action are two different things. How can we turn our caring into action when it relates to:
- The unborn
- The unwed mother
- The elderly
- The disabled
8. Agree or disagree on this statement: “the world has chosen to make life an issue of politics rather than an issue of morality”. Share why you agree or disagree. In what ways do you see this being played out in our American culture. Consider Isaiah 5:20-21 – how are these verses so relative to today in regards to the unborn, the elderly, the disabled, and the “sojourner and alien”?
