Summit Church
The Kingdom Way Pt 4 | What's Wrong With Private Sins? | Jim Ladd
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Summit Church
7200 S Clinton St, Centennial, CO 80112, USA
Sunday 10:00 AM
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https://launcher.nucleus.church/flow/415b9052c1eb8a5656fdThe Big Idea:
Don’t settle for sin management when true transformation is available.
Don’t settle for sin management when true transformation is available.
1. The Heart of the Matter
God invites your heart to participate in the very life of God, resulting in three overlapping characteristics: Faith, Hope, and Love.
2. The Root of the Problem
The Root of Murder is anger, entitlement, and objectifying others
The Root of Adultery is lust, entitlement, and objectifying others.
The Root of Adultery is lust, entitlement, and objectifying others.
Lust and anger are like a cannibal committing suicide by nibbling on himself.
3. The Partnership of Transformation
What we have here is not high-minded idealism, but a concrete plan for deliverance from our cycles of sin.
How to Partner in My Transformation:
1. Govern my Heart
2. Urgently Engage Real People
3. Amputate every source of temptation
1. Govern my Heart
2. Urgently Engage Real People
3. Amputate every source of temptation
Response:
What does God want to do in you?
What are you willing to do to participate with Him?
With whom do you need to reconcile?
What does God want to do in you?
What are you willing to do to participate with Him?
With whom do you need to reconcile?
Discussion Guide
OPENER QUESTION:
- What is one of the most difficult things you’ve ever done? (Mentally, physically, or emotionally)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What’s wrong with private sins? (Nobody knows and nobody is directly affected)
2. How is sin-management different from transformation of the heart? What role does sin-management play in the process of transformation?
3. Fill in the blank: God does not care if you believe in Him. In fact, 99.9% of people and 100% of demons do. He cares about whether you _________ Him.
4. The opposite of faith is not unbelief. The opposite of faith is the need for control, fear, anxiety, and independence. Explain this.
5. What do you think it means to “participate in the life of God, resulting in faith, hope, and love”? How are you doing at this?
6. Describe what this is like: “sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Genesis 4:7)
7. How is it helpful, especially in matters of anger or lust, to refuse to objectify people?
8. What we need to truly transform is a concrete plan and a partnership with the Holy Spirit. Explain this statement.
9. Pick one item of this Partnership for Transformation and discuss it:
- Govern my Heart
- Urgently engage real people
- Amputate every source of temptation
10. Pray for one another.
- What is one of the most difficult things you’ve ever done? (Mentally, physically, or emotionally)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What’s wrong with private sins? (Nobody knows and nobody is directly affected)
2. How is sin-management different from transformation of the heart? What role does sin-management play in the process of transformation?
3. Fill in the blank: God does not care if you believe in Him. In fact, 99.9% of people and 100% of demons do. He cares about whether you _________ Him.
4. The opposite of faith is not unbelief. The opposite of faith is the need for control, fear, anxiety, and independence. Explain this.
5. What do you think it means to “participate in the life of God, resulting in faith, hope, and love”? How are you doing at this?
6. Describe what this is like: “sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” (Genesis 4:7)
7. How is it helpful, especially in matters of anger or lust, to refuse to objectify people?
8. What we need to truly transform is a concrete plan and a partnership with the Holy Spirit. Explain this statement.
9. Pick one item of this Partnership for Transformation and discuss it:
- Govern my Heart
- Urgently engage real people
- Amputate every source of temptation
10. Pray for one another.
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