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 5:15–21.

2. What stood out to you from the passage?

3. What stood out to you from the sermon?

4. What do you think Paul means in verse 20 when he says that “the law came along to multiply the trespass”? How does this lead to grace multiplying even more? Can you think of any examples in your life or the world that illustrate this?

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 Can Rescue All
Scripture: Romans 5:15-21
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church

> Just as Adam’s life brought death, Jesus’s death brought life.

> We are separated through rejecting but are welcomed through receiving.

“A crucial eccentricity of the Christian faith is the assertion that people are saved by grace. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do. The grace of God means something like: "Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are, because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you."There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.” - Fredrick Beuchner, Wishful Thinking

> Our death comes from the first man, but life comes from the perfect man.

“Paul is building up an argument from the lesser to the greater. “How much more,” he says, does Christ’s action of grace save us. “How much more” powerful and victorious is Christ than Adam was. “That one man,” Adam drew the whole human race into rebellion along with him; “how much more” does “that one man,” Jesus Christ, give “the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness.” - Fleming Ruteldge, Not Ashamed of the Gospel

> Our sin is great but God’s grace is always greater.

“[Grace] works without asking anything of us. It's not cheap. It's free, and as such will always be a banana peel for the Orthodox foot and a fairy tale for the grown-up sensibility. Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try to find something or someone it cannot cover. Grace is enough. He is enough. Jesus is enough.” - Brennan Manning