MISSION COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

QUICK REVIEW
Looking back at your notes from this week’s teaching on Romans 10:5-13, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged or confused you?

DIGGING DEEPER

Read Romans 10:9-10, Luke 12:8-10, 2 Timothy 2:12, Acts 17:22-34

In Acts 17:22-34, what is the Areopagus?  Why is it significant?  What does Paul confess at the Areopagus?  What was the response?

Where is your Areopagus?  What are you confessing there?  What is the response?

Read Romans 10:5-13, John 3:16, John 3:36, Acts 16:30-31, Hebrews 11

What was the fruit of the faith of these men/women?  What is the fruit of your faith?

Read Ephesians 2:8-9 and James 2:17 how do you reconcile these two passages?

How was your intial response to Pastor Eric's warning againist using Romans 10:9-10 to promote immediate conversions and easy beleivism which can promote to false assurance?

How is "easy believism"  rampant in the American Church?  How do you combat easy believism in your own life?

For more information: 

Read, Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart by J.D. Greer

Go to t4g.org and listen to False Conversions:  The Suicide of the Church by Mark Dever

Youtube:  Paul Washer video Examining the Sinner's Prayer