We should live like Jesus: Slaves to righteous living

Romans 6:16-18 | Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

• What does it mean to be a slave to something? 

  • What does it mean to be a slave to sin? 

  • What does it mean to be a slave to righteous living? 

• Looking at your life, can you relate to the transformation covered in Romans 6- once a slave to sin, but now free from it? If so, how? If not, why? 

• Looking at your life, can you be described as someone who “wholeheartedly” obeys God’s teaching? In what ways or why not?  

  • Why do you think the word “wholeheartedly” was included, rather than just saying, obeys? 

  • If you aren’t wholeheartedly obeying, what needs to change?