Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
Embrace the gravity.
- Consider the warning in verse 7. Are there ways you are living in danger of mocking God through your disobedience? Are there ways you minimize or justify your sin or simply think it won’t matter to continue in your sin?
- Use your sanctified imagination to consider what you might reap if you continue down this path.
- Do you need to confess and repent of these ways before God, who points these things out of love for you?
Beyond yourself, consider the culture we live in. They too will reap what they sow—God’s judgment.
- Who are some people around you that mock God in their decisions and choices?
- What is your response to them? Do you lack concern and care—or are you even glad they will receive God’s judgment?
- What might be a way you can sow the good news of the Gospel into their lives?
Embrace grace.
- Conversely, how can you “sow to the Spirit” (v. 8) in the area you identified above instead of living by the flesh?
- What are some promises of God that you can start to place your trust in? How can you fight the temptation to trust yourself?
- What are some good works you can begin to do–not to earn your salvation but as an act of faith and trust in his promises–to start loving those you struggle to love? Or consider another believer you know that you can serve in love (v. 10).
Find hope in your weariness.
- Where do you find it hard to keep going in doing good (v. 9)? How does the idea of sowing and reaping help you to persevere?
- Using your sanctified imagination again, look forward and picture what a life of faithfulness in doing good result in—not just in heaven, but here today? How might God grow your character? Change your relationships? …? Let these fuel your hope.
Referenced in this sermon:
Fruit, Faith and the Gospel (Gal. 5:22-24)–introduction to summer series
