Romans 2:4 | Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

• What kindness does God show towards sinners (all people)?

• What kindness, tolerance, and patience has God shown to you personally, especially in regard to your own struggle with sin?

• How have you responded to God’s kindness and patience? 

• After salvation, how should we respond to God’s continued kindness and patience?

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Romans 2:4 | Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

• What kindness does God show towards sinners (all people)?

• What kindness, tolerance, and patience has God shown to you personally, especially in regard to your own struggle with sin?

• How have you responded to God’s kindness and patience? 

• After salvation, how should we respond to God’s continued kindness and patience?

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Romans 2:4 | Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

• What kindness does God show towards sinners (all people)?

• What kindness, tolerance, and patience has God shown to you personally, especially in regard to your own struggle with sin?

• How have you responded to God’s kindness and patience? 

• After salvation, how should we respond to God’s continued kindness and patience?

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2nd Peter 3:9 | The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

• What promise is 2nd Peter 3:9 referring to, that God is waiting to give His followers?

• Why is God waiting? 

• Who do you know that God is waiting for? 

• Why doesn’t God want anyone to be destroyed?

• Teens/Adults: If God doesn’t want anyone to die apart from Him, why does it still happen?

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John 3:16-17 | “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.’

1 John 2:2 | He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.

• Who did God send Jesus to save? Why did God the Father do this? 

• Whose sin did Jesus pay for? Did He leave anyone out? Why? 

• If Jesus paid for the sins of the whole world, who does God want to repent (or to give their life to Him)?

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Last week, we saw a discouraged Moses try repeatedly to obey God’s plan. While Moses did what God said, the Israelites remained slaves in Egypt. Pharoah simply would not let God’s people go! But we learned that we should never give up on God’s plan – God surely hadn’t. He isn’t done with Pharaoh yet! He tells Moses what to do next-

Exodus 7:14-15 | Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn, and he still refuses to let the people go. So go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the river. Stand on the bank of the Nile and meet him there. Be sure to take along the staff that turned into a snake.”

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1st Chronicles 16:11 | Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.

• Why is strength important when you are trying to live out God’s plan for you but you’re experiencing struggles or roadblocks like Moses did? 

• When you feel like giving up on God’s plan, where does 1st Chronicles 16:11 tell us to find strength? 

• Where should you look? 

• Who should you ask? 

• What does it look like to “continually seek” God? 

• Are you doing this? In what ways or why not? 

• How does seeking God give you strength?

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1st Corinthians 9:24-26 | Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 

• What eternal prize does today’s reading refer to? How is it related to not giving up on God’s plan for you (which is our focus for this week)? 

• What does it mean to “run to win?” 

• According to today’s reading, how does a person ‘run to win?’

• What does this look like in the life of a Christian? 

• Think about God’s plan for you right now. How can you ‘run with purpose in every step’ towards living out/completing that plan? 

• What are you already doing? 

• What do you need to start doing?

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