Last Installment! Summer in Romans 6

Romans 6:20-23 The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Observation questions are in plain type. Interpretation questions are in italics. Application questions are in bold. (For a further explanation of how to do this Bible study, see here.)

Pray for insight into the Scriptures and give God praise for “the free gift of God…eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Read Romans 6:1 – 7:6.

Romans 6:20-23

1. When Paul’s readers were slaves of sin, how were they free?

2. What does it mean to be “free in regard to righteousness”?

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Pitiful Christians in a Pandemic

As a brand-new, twenty-something Christian, spending a year doing intern youth ministry, I had just shared the gospel to a class of jaded twelve-year-olds, when a boy swamped in an over-sized school blazer approached me. By the look on his face the cogs of his mind were spinning fast. He politely asked if he could ask me a question and said, “What if you’re wrong? What if it all just isn’t true?”

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