Supporting Texts: Genesis 1:31, Isaiah 9:6
Let's start out catching every one up on the text. Answer the 2 goal questions from the series.
1. What does the text mean?
and
2. What do I need to do about it?
1. What is the difference between your "very good" and God's "very good?" Why should we think His is better? What gives Him the credibility to claim that He knows what's best for us?
2. What's the solution to desiring God more than we desire our sin? How can we move from "cutting off your hand" being weird and offensive to realizing that nothing is worth separating us from God?
3. What is the role of repentance in your life? How often do you confess your sins to God? Confession and repentance is not only instructed by God, but is a great reminder of what the Gospel really did for followers of Jesus.
4. Make a list (pass out paper or make a mental note) of the sins that you need to cut out of your life. Start this week by simply confessing them to God. Secondly, form a plan to stay away from those sins. Confess is to make known, and repent is to turn away and go in the opposite direction. Don't just confess the sin and do the same thing a few hours later. Confess and have a plan of action to keep from doing it again (change your routine, avoid temptation places/times/situations, fill your time with other things).
1. So what does this say about God?
2. What does this say about us?
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