FREE :: rescued :: LIFEGroup notes

series: FREE

title: rescued

date: 19 sepetember 2010

text: Galatians 1:1-5

OUTLINE

Does truth matter?

How do we know what is true? (Galatians 1:1)

“The world we live in is conspicuously and sadly lacking in the experience of freedom.”
Eugene Peterson

Who needs to hear the truth? (Galatians 1:2)

What are some of the tests of the truth? (Galatians 1:3)

What is the truth Paul was defending? (Galatians 1:4) 

LIVING THE TEXT

Looking at the Text

• Read Galatians 1
• Who is this letter written to?
• Why do you think Paul is defending his authority?
• In what way did Jesus give himself for our sins (v4)?
• Paul writes about being rescued (v4) in this passage.
  o   What does this mean?
  o   In what sense is rescue is both “from” and “to”?
  o   In what way does God rescue us?
  o   How have you been rescued?
• Why do you think Paul refers to “the present evil age” (v4)
• What is “grace and peace” (v3)?
• In what way does it come (only?) from “God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (v3)?
  o   Why do you think Paul refer to both the Father and Jesus?
  o   What is the significance of using “our”?

Living the Text

• Looking at these introductory verses, especially the words grace, peace, rescue, glory; what difference does understanding these things make in how we live?
• What are some of the things that stop us from living the lives of freedom that we are designed for?

For Next Week

• Read all of Galatians (use more than one version). You may want to use one the Bibles listed here.