Run to Win
February 21, 2010 · Filed Under Sermon Study Guides
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
- Read the text for this sermon and read Philippians 2:12-13. Talk about the tension produced in these texts regarding the nature of salvation and the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints.
- Respond to this statement: “We are always training ourselves spiritually in one direction or another.” Do you agree or disagree. As you think about this question look up 1 Timothy 4:7 and 2 Peter 2:14.
- Why is spiritually training as a Christian so difficult? Did any of the reasons given in the sermon stand out to you?
- Think about the stages and/or elements involved in a physical workout regimen. What parallels can you draw to the spiritual life?
- Discuss the following statement: “When I discipline myself I put myself in a position at some point in the future to do by direct effort what I cannot now do by direct effort.”
- Formulate your own question from this text to share with the group.
- Pray for one another to live lives of personal spiritual discipline. Each person in the group should share one area of spiritual weakness that they want the rest of the group to be praying for.
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