January 28, 2024
Included | Romans 4:18-25
Against All Hope
What does it mean, and what does it look like to ’trust God’? It’s one thing to talk about theories or doctrine; it’s another to actually do it! Enter Abraham and Sarah, two people staring down the barrel of a hopeless situation. Faith may not look like what you think.
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- Recall a situation in your life that felt hopeless. How did that turn out? Tell that story.
- Verse 19 claims that Abraham faced his hopeless situation “without weakening in his faith”? If you’ve read the account in Genesis, you might not evaluate Abraham that way. How do you reconcile those two versions of the same story?
- The upshot of Abraham’s story is that God credited righteousness to him. What does that mean? What did it mean for Abraham? What does it mean for you?
- God requires faith from you, except for you - it's faith about God raising Jesus from the dead. Why must Christians believe that?
- Is there a hopeless situation in your life right now? Share that and pray with each other over those issues.
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