Romans 5:1-11

Romans 5:1-5
In what ways has God given you hope in spite of suffering?
How are you using the suffering God has brought you through to encourage and strengthen others who are experiencing the same thing?
How are your words and actions toward the lost different because of the hope you have in God?
How is the grace and peace you have with God being exhibited in your life before others?

Romans 5:6-8
How will you express your gratitude to God this week for Christ's death on your behalf?
In what way are the conditions of Christ's death especially meaningful to you? At just the right time. While we were helpless. While we were sinners.
How are you allowing God's example of true love, coupled with the love poured out in your heart, to be shared with your enemies?

Romans 5:9-11
In what way are you still trying to carry the burden of your own sin, not realizing the fullness of Christ's salvation?
Are you living as one who has been justified through Christ's blood, or are you also living as one who is saved through His life?
Who will you talk to this week about this great salvation that only Christ can give? Justification. Peace with God. Reconciliation. Joy in spite of circumstances. Love poured out for you and into you.

Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:1-8
How is your striving through works leading to lack of assurance in salvation?
What guilt are you still carrying, thinking you have to work off the payment for a wrong?
How are you putting up a barrier to faith by adding works as a necessary element for justification?

Romans 4:9-17
What religious rituals or rites are you trusting in as acts of righteousness?
How are you incorrectly viewing God's justification as a system of merits in which you contribute good works to your account by performing certain religious acts?
What are you adding to faith as a means of salvation? Lord's Supper? Baptism? Confession? Good deeds?

Romans 4:18-25
Has your account been credited with righteousness, or are you still counting on your own deposits?
How is your faith like Abraham's? Against all hope believing. Without weakening. Not wavering through unbelief. Being strengthened. Fully persuaded that God has the power.

Romans 3:27-31

Romans 3:27-28
In what way are you boasting or proud of your spiritual position? Are you boasting about superior knowledge due to personal Bible study? A position in your Church? A Spiritual gift?
How are you comparing your walk with God to that of others and possibly looking down on them?
How is your theological or doctrinal pride blinding your to inconsistencies in your belief system?

Romans 3:29-30
Who are you believing for your salvation? Christ and His atoning sacrifice for you or is it something else?
What type of faith do you have? Is it saving faith, involving content, love, and commitment? Or is it mere intellectual assent to the facts of the Gospel?
Is your faith the type that causes you to follow Christ in obedience or are you still trying to live according to the dictates of your own will?

Romans 3:31
What system of rules are you trying to maintain in addition to faith in Christ?
What moral laws of God are you ignoring, thinking that the law is no longer important?

Romans 3:21-26

Romans 3:21-23
What have you placed your faith in? A church? A pastor? A teacher? Sacraments?
How has your faith in Christ changed your life?
Are you any different on the inside?
Or is your faith all external and for appearance sake?

Romans 3:24-25c
Have you been justified by faith in the work of Jesus on the cross? Are you sharing the gospel with others?
How have you been feeling yourself drawn back into the areas of sin that Christ redeemed you from? You are not a slave to sin if you have placed your faith in Christ for redemption.

Romans 3:25d-26
What barrier are you facing that is keeping you from placing your complete faith in Jesus' atoning sacrifice?
How are you treating sin as if God just overlooks it rather than realizing your sin penalty was paid by Christ?

Romans 3:1-20

Romans 3:1-8
What advantages has God given you in order to point you toward Him?
What has God entrusted you with? Are you taking the responsibility seriously?
How are your sinful habits showing a disregard for God's grace and mercy?

Romans 3:9-18
How are your actions, thoughts, and attitudes showing a lack of fear of God?
How are you rationalizing sin by telling yourself it only affects you?
How are you blaming others for the way you are rather than admitting you are a sinner?

Romans 3:19-20
How are you misusing the law as a means of obtaining righteousness?
How is God's law revealing to you your inability to meet His perfect standard?

Romans 2:1-29

Romans 2:1-4
In what areas are you judging other people?
Is your judgment true?
Have you checked your motives for judging?
Are you guilty of the same offense?

Romans 2:5-16
What could you do to gain a better understanding of God's view of right and wrong?
What are you doing with the knowledge of right and wrong that you have?
Are the good things you do motivated by a love for God or by your own self-interests?

Romans 2:17-29
What are you doing to make yourself right with God – outward religious activities or the gift of new life through Jesus Christ?
What religious rituals are you clinging to as signs of your salvation? Baptism? Confirmation? Communion? Confession?
Will you ask God to show you the true meaning behind the rituals and to make a change on the inside?

Romans 1:18-31

Romans 1:18-20
What qualities of God have you observed in nature lately? Have you praised God for them?
Will you spend some time this week observing God's creation and make a point of thanking Him for some aspect of it?

Romans 1:21-23
Do you have an untrue image of God in your mind – some incorrect way of thinking about Him?
Any idea that we have about God, that is inconsistent with His revelation in the Bible, is false.
When we hold a false view of who God is, when we worship, are we truly worshiping Him?
Will you ask God this week to show you this false view of Him and will you seek to find the truth of who He is in His word?

Romans 1:24-31
What unguarded areas of sin have you kept hidden in your life?
What wickedness are you tolerating by rationalizing its significance away?
What areas of your thoughts are you compromising in?
What are you allowing yourself to look at that God calls sin?
Will you ask God to deal with these areas of your life?
Will you confess them, repent and turn away before God's wrath is against you?

Romans 1:1-17

Romans 1:1-7
Is your life characterized as a life seeking to elevate the name of Jesus? If not, why not?
Is God's purpose and direction for your life more important to you than your own goals and pursuits?

Romans 1:8-15
Is there an area of work God has called you to, but you have not yet stepped out in obedience to do it?
Is there some job in your church that you know God wants you in, but you don't think you have the time?
Is there some other place you would rather be? Perhaps God wants to use you right where you are.

Romans 1:16-17
Have you ever experienced the power of God's salvation in your life?
Is your righteousness just that, your righteousness, or righteousness by faith in Christ?
If you have Christ's righteousness, are you still trying to earn God's favor by good works, or are you walking by faith?