Conversation Starters
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.

1. Read Romans 5:12–14.

2. What stood out to you from the passage?

3. What stood out to you from the sermon?

4. Consider the effects of sin and death in our current world. What are some of the impacts of this on a personal and community level? What does it look like to have hope in the Coming One in the midst of this sin and death?

5. How will you apply this to your life? What are you going to do, be, or think differently because of this truth?

Title: The Representative Who Wrecked It All
Reference: Romans 5:12-14
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@cckc.church

> The first Adam failed, so now we all fail too.

A. Sin produces
B. Death
B. All Die
A. Because all sin

…we are all "in Adam", that is, of Adam's race, and have all inherited an inability not to sin. Sin is now in our blood. (Solomon Andria, Romans Africa Bible Commentary Series)

> The first Adam failed, so death reigns.

“More than anything, he longs to live forever. Thiel does not believe death is inevitable. Calling death a law of nature is, in his view, just an excuse for giving up. ‘It’s something we are told that demotivates us from trying harder,’ he said. He has spent enormous sums trying to evade his own end but feels that, if anything, he should devote even more time and money to solving the problem of human mortality.”

> The first Adam failed, so we need a new Adam.

> We need a new Adam. And we have One!

> Cling to the Coming One

>Three Practices:
#1 Empathy for the world.
#2 Humility in the world.
#3 Patience with the world.

We think that Paradise and Calvary,
Christ's cross, and Adam's tree, stood in one place;
Look, Lord, and find both Adams met in me;
As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face,
May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace.

-John Donne, “Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness.”

"Eternal Father, God of our ancestors, before your power all things tremble, but through your Son we approach your throne. We have done wrong and neglected to do right; our sins weigh heavily on our hearts; Lord have mercy, count them not against us.Grant us the joy of forgiveness and lighten our hearts with the glory of Christ, who died and rose again for us. Amen."