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 5:6-11.

2. What stood out to you from the passage?

3. What stood out to you from the sermon?

4. Consider the unprecedented reality in verse 8 that “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Is there anything in your life you are holding onto or trying to “fix” before allowing yourself to receive God’s love? What would it look like for you to live in acknowledgement of being reconciled to God now, even while you're still struggling with sin?

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 Result of Rescue: Reconciliation
Scripture: Romans 5:6-11
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@cckc.church

> We’ve all had one “Having” relationship [or ten].

> God’s love is different.

> How can I trust God has my best interest at heart?

> God chose to die.

> God chose to die for us.

> God chose to die for us to be with us.

> Let yourself enjoy being God’s friend.

> 3 Ways to Enjoy God’s Friendship:
#1 Listen to God’s side of the story.
#2 Assume God has good intentions.
#3 Acknowledge feelings and practice being vulnerable in small steps.

… ‘knowing’ God is of necessity a more complex business than ‘knowing’ a fellow-man, just as ‘knowing’ my neighbor is a more complex business than ‘knowing’ a house, or a book, or a language. The more complex the object, the more complex is the knowing of it.”
- J. I. Packer, Knowing God

> Only God can undo our deepest aloneness.