Religion & Spirituality
Main Point: Worship is living for God in response to his amazing grace! Questions: 1. What challenged you or encouraged you from the message this week? 2. Read Romans 12:1. What do you notice about this verse? What words stuck out to you? What questions do you have after reading this passage? 3. What is the “Therefore” there for? (Most believe that Paul is referring to the previous 12 chapters of Romans.) 4. How would you define God’s mercy? How is it shown in the work of Jesus? 5. What does it mean to “offer your bodies as a living sacrifice”? How does this relate to worship? 6. How do you define worship? Give examples of what worship looks like? 7. The English words related to worship in this passage come from the Greek word logikos. This word means logical or rational. How is offering our whole selves to God a logical response to God’s mercy? 8. Paul is saying considering the amazing mercy we have been given by God, we should fully give ourselves to God. This is the logical and rational response. To response to God in this way is worship. How does this thinking challenge your understanding of the Christian life? What keeps Christians from directing all that they do to God as worship? 9. How can we worship God in our relationships, in our work, and in our play? Give examples. How can our actions in these areas be understood as worship to God? 10. What is one thing God is calling you to do in response to what you have learned today? By God’s grace, how can you apply this to your life this week?