a GROW lesson

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Evil Rationalized (Isa. 5:20-23)
Holiness Recognized (Isa. 6:1-5)
Righteousness Realized (Rom. 3:21-26)

Background Passages:
Isaiah 5:8–6:7; Romans 3:9-26

Focal Passages:
Isaiah 5:20-23; 6:1-5; Romans 3:21-26

What This Lesson Is About:
This lesson is about God’s holy character being the standard of goodness.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson can help you make the case for Jesus by focusing on God’s holy character.

Focal Passage Outline and Scripture Passages:
Does Sin Still Shock Us? (1 Cor. 5:1-2)
How Should We Respond to Immoral Members? (1 Cor. 5:9-13)
What’s Wrong with Sexual Immorality? (1 Cor. 6:15-20)

Background Passages:
1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 6:12–7:40

Focal Passages:
1 Corinthians 5:1-2,9-13; 6:15-20

What This Lesson Is About:
God’s standards—not prevailing cultural standards—form the basis for the Christian’s morality. The church must uphold God’s standards of morality.

How This Lesson Can Impact Your Life:
This lesson will help you to examine ways you are influenced by cultural views of sexual morality and to identify ways to protect your moral integrity and the reputation of your church.

Galatians 1:6-10

1:6. I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,
1:7. which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
1:8. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
1:9. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
1:10. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
–NKJ

This passage picks up right after Pauls opening greeting to the Galatian church, and where he has come to them with Jesus as the sole authority behind his message. He cuts right to the problem the people were having with falling away from their faith.

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