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: Nathan Miller, NathanM@cckc.church

> Not only did many American doctors not believe in germs, they took pride in the particular brand of filth that defined their profession. They spoke fondly of the “good old surgical stink” that pervaded their hospitals and operating rooms, and they resisted making too many concessions even to basic hygiene. ~Candice Millard

> During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The debate went on for some time until C.S. Lewis wandered into the room. ‘What’s the rumpus about?’ he asked, and heard in reply that his colleagues were discussing… [what’s unique about Christianity]. Lewis responded, ‘Oh, that’s easy. It’s grace.'
~ Philip Yancey

> It’s an extraordinary thing, the moment of surrender. To get down on your knees and ask the silence to save you, to reveal itself to you. To kneel down, to implore, to throw yourself out into space, to quietly whisper or roar your insignificance. To fall prostrate and ask to be carried. To humble yourself with your family, your bandmates, and to discover if there’s a face or a name to that silence. ~ Bono