Sin, The Struggle & The Solution

10/20/2019

In this, the first week of our series, “Sin, the Struggle, and the Solution”, spend some time talking about what your first reaction to the series title was. I was told that when the sign for this was going up outside the church last Tuesday, two boys from the highschool who were walking by read it and yelled that they are gay.

When you first heard this, what did you think and feel? (Were there some specific circumstances brought to mind, or a feeling of dread, or worry about being made to feel guilty?)

Pastor Jeremy said that our problem with sin is actually our denial of it. How do you understand this? Do you agree with the statement?

Read Jeremiah 2:1-13 together.

The main motivation behind sin is a denial of the awe of God. Where do you see this in the passage from Jeremiah? What two things did it lead the people of Israel to do? (v13) Why was this so bad that God would name these things individually?

How does Paul talk about this very same thing in Romans 1:18-23

What is the solution to all this? How can we reverse things such as broken denying the source of living water, making broken cisterns, and worshipping what is created?

How did Jesus accomplish this reversal? In other words, how is Jesus the hope we need?

How will you explain all this to your unbelieving neighbour who is struggling with the effects of sin in his or her life? How will you point them a path to hope and wholeness? Preach this to each other.

“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”
Hebrews 3:12‭-‬13