September 21, 2025

Richard White, Pastor

Romans 8:1-2                           The Grace Effect: Romans 8

1. What voices of condemnation come at you from the world around you (work, family, society, etc…)?  Think of the commercials you watch on TV. What are the subtle condemning/accusing messages associated with them?
2. What voices of condemnation arise from within you? (weaknesses, past or present failures, sins, disappointments, etc….)?
3. In what way does forgetting our “no condemnation,” contribute to our troubles with such things as worry, anxiety, fear, distance from God, anger, pride, despair, defensiveness, sensitivity to criticism, lack of joy, etc…?
4. What exactly is condemnation and what does it mean that there is no condemnation? (Rom 3:10-19, 23; 6:23)   How emphatic is Paul in 8:1 about this truth of “no condemnation”?
5. What do you think it means to be “in Christ Jesus”? (John 15:5-9; Rom 6:3-5; Col 2:10-14; Gal 2:20)
6. Apply living by “no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus” to a condemning/accusing circumstance of your life. What keeps you from believing 8:1? How can it change how you will deal with the accusations coming at you from outside and from inside?
7. Take time as a group just to read Romans 8, the entire chapter. Consider trying to memorize it as a group over the next 10 weeks, or a portion of it.