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 3:21-26.

2. What stood out to you from the passage?

3. What stood out to you from the sermon?

4. In verse 24 Paul explains that justification is a free gift that comes by the grace of God. What are some ways you find yourself trying to earn your own justification, and what could be gained in your life if you were to let go of this striving?

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

Title: Rescued by Grace
Scripture: Romans 3:21-26
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> Are you okay?

> You can’t make yourself okay.

> You can be okay.

> How can we be okay?

> God has made a way for you to be okay.

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
- Augustine

> God has made a way for you to be okay by blood.

> Let yourself be okay with Him.

“[Grace] strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you…Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!" If that happens to us, we experience grace.” - Paul Tillich

#1 Okay in Waking.

“As Christians, we wake each morning as those who are baptized. We are united with Christ and the approval of the Father is spoken over us. We are marked from our first waking moment by an identity that is given to us by grace: an identity that is deeper and more real than any other identity we will don that day.” - Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary

#1 Okay in Waking.
#2 Okay in Remembering.
#3 Okay in Seeing.

“Sin is inevitable,” he said, “yet all will be well and all will be well and every kind of thing shall be well.” - Julian of Norwich