1) Read Romans 6:15-7:6. What thoughts did the Holy Spirit bring to mind?
2) What is the difference between our position of being “dead to sin and alive to God” and actually living it?
3) Why is the Lordship of Jesus required to live this way and not just talk about it?
4) In v.19, Paul says we are actually more expert at serving a lord than we know.  Explain.

• In what ways did your old life before Jesus seem enjoyable?
• When did you come to see it as destructive?
• What helped / is helping you to turn away from the old life?

6) Read Numbers 11:5-6. Sometimes discipleship is difficult and doesn’t seem worth it.  The old life seems easier.  Why is that?  How does the enemy get us to forget the emptiness of our old life?
7) How can slavery to Jesus be understood as a good thing?  (See Romans 1:1 where Paul refers to himself as a “slave” (translated “servant”) of Jesus.)
8) In what ways are you a slave of Jesus?  What does it look like in your life?  In what ways is slavery to Jesus sometimes negative, making you “push back” against Jesus?
9) Read John 15:1-5. What does it mean to you to “abide” in Jesus?
10) Read John 13:25. The Greek text says that John leaned “on the breast” of Jesus.  Why do you think we express it differently in English?
11) Read John 5:11-12.  What does it mean to “have the Son of God”?  Do you “have the Son”?  How do you know?
12) How can we pray for ECB and for our group right now?