Who Do You Think You Are?

‍Table Talk (⅓ of meeting) 

• Pumpkin Spice Lattes - overrated or underrated? 
• How is God at work through your week? OR share something you’re glad happened this week. 
• How is it going lately with following and fishing?
  Following = taking steps of faith 
  Fishing = sharing Jesus’ love with others 

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Discussion Guidelines 

1. Everyone shares in sentences, not paragraphs. 
2. Focus only on what this passage is saying. (This keeps everyone on the same page) 
3. Share from your perspective – we won’t argue or give advice. 
4. Give everyone time to respond. Silence is OK. 
5. The facilitator will facilitate discussion, not teach. 

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Discover what God is saying to you. (⅓ of meeting) 

Big Idea: Sin is the slavery from which Christ’s death frees us.

Read Romans 6:1-14

• What do you like about this passage? What do you find challenging?  
• What do you think it means to be a slave to sin?
• Paul’s analogy of slavery to sin sheds light on the fact that we can’t change in our own power. What are repeated thoughts, attitudes, or behaviors that feel out of your control? 
• Share a time when you allowed the Holy Spirit to free you from something that felt out of your control. ‍
• Christ frees us to be an instrument for God’s glory (v13), which means we can bring beauty and goodness to broken people and places. What are some ways we can do that?

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Go do it. (⅓ of meeting)

• The next service featuring baptisms is October 5. If you sense God calling you to be baptized or reaffirm your baptism, visit table.org/baptism.
• What’s your takeaway from our discussion? 
  • How can you take a simple step to live out this passage in the next few days? Pair up with someone to contact in the middle of the week to check in on how it’s going with their step.  
  • In baptism, our old, sinful self goes down into the water to die with Christ on the cross, and we rise out of the water into new life with Christ. 
    
    • If you’ve been baptized, share the impact that had on your faith. 

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