- During the week of June 18-22, we are responsible for the summer lunch program. We will need 4 to 5 people to help each day from 11 am to 1 pm. If you are available and willing to help we will have a brief meeting following worship Sunday morning.
- Beginning this Sunday there will be a box at the back of the church with note cards. If you have a particular scripture or topic that you would like for us to use write it down and put it in the box. for the rest of the summer Laurie and I will choose a card from the box to preach from each Sunday.
Scripture for Sunday Romans 6:1-14 (ESV)
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? [2] By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? [3] Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? [4] We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
[5] For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. [6] We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. [7] For one who has died has been set free from sin. [8] Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. [9] We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. [10] For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. [11] So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
[12] Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. [13] Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. [14] For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Questions for Reflection
1. What motivates people to make major changes in their lives?
2. What makes it possible for a person to live a new life? (6:4)
3. How will uniting with Christ in His death change the future of our lives? (6:8-10)
4. In a person’s new relationship with God, what is his or her relationship to sin supposed to be? (6:11-12)
5. What change in attitude and action toward God happens in a person who follows Christ? (6:11-13)
6. What does this passage tell us about God and Christ?
7. What does this passage tell us about all people and their relationship to God?
8. What kind of changes does God want to make in our lives when we become Christians?
