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Todd & Gary
3/22/10
22 Mar 2010
Please arrive a few minutes early for this meeting.
Thanks!
Todd & Gary
9 Mar 2010
# of Adults = 15
# of Children = 8
SITTER
Miss Markie
Please remember to bring $5 / per child - for child care.
DVD LESSON
Romans Chap. 7 (Lesson #11 of 12)
As Christians we are no longer slaves to sin. We are a new creation. However, we will still struggle with sin until the day we are in heaven. Paul teaches us how to fight well. In this session, we learn that “there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
CHAPTER 7
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
3 So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about covet- ing if the Law had not said, “YOU SHALL NOT COVET.”
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the com- mandment came, sin became alive and I died;
10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it, killed me.
12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
CHAPTER 8
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
GROUP DISCUSSION
• Introductions to Rob & Morgan … Why do we like Gary? ☺
• We must obey God’s laws, why?
• Salvation, not Heaven is mentioned in the Bible
• Evil is present in us since we are not yet in Heaven.
• Sin dwells in our flesh like a rebellious serpent!
• Paul wrote a lot of the New Testament. He wrote of his struggles with sin.
• Invest in your soul: Music, positive people, good friends … our spirits our saved, our bodies are the devils playground, but our souls need salvation!
SNACKS
• March 9 = Koerner (THANK YOU MISSY)
• March 23 = Price
• April 6 = Loftis
PRAYER REQUESTS
• Gary / Kameron Morris is sick (stomach bug)
• Angie Brady / Baby girl Brady is due in 2 weeks!
• Angie Blight / Co-workers wife is in the hospital.
• Missy / Ray’s work & volunteer responsibilities
• Kris / Dakoda has had many behavior problems at school and on the bus.
PRAISE REPORTS
• Gary / Grampa is doing very well after hip replacement.
• Angie Blight / Gets to visit Mom over Easter with both kiddies.
• Todd / Grateful for great friends who helped with his shed.
• Jamey / Mom has her arm in a sling, but is doing better and is back to work.
• Angie Brady / well now, after having bronchitis
REMINDERS
• Egg Hunt at the YMCA = help is needed! See Mathew or Erik
• Bible Study Donation = We are collecting (whatever amount you feel you can give, please don’t feel pressured) for a cross for our church. It will be approved by Erik before we purchase it. We will be collecting for the next 2 meetings.
• This Friday = Women’s night out at church. While you were sleeping will be the movie that is played. Please join us if you are available.
• Reading for next mtg: ROMANS 8:5 - 39
23 Feb 2010
Adults = 13
Children = 9
SITTER
Miss Markie
Please remember to bring $5 / per child - for child care.
DVD LESSON
Romans 6:13 -23 (Lesson 10 of 12)
Is it better to have the rule outside of you or inside of you? In session ten we learn what it means to be obedient from the heart. As Christians, we have taken up residence in the body of Christ! His gift to you, His free gift to you, is eternal life!
CHAPTER 6
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedi- ence resulting in righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawless- ness, so now present your members as slaves to righteous- ness, resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
session ten | 39
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Text QUESTIONS
1. As a sinner, what comfort do you find in 6:14?
2. In 6:16 what is the result of being a slave to sin?
3. What then is the result of being obedient?
4. In Verse 19 what was the result of lawlessness?
5. What was the result of righteousness? 40 | romans • vol. 1
6. In 6:21 what is the outcome of “the things of which you are now ashamed”?
7. In 6:22 what is the outcome of “being enslaved to God”?
8. What is the wage of sin?
9. What is the free gift of God?
GROUP DISCUSSION
• What are some things that YOU think should be “laws”
• Right vs. Wrong (putting a label on things to make it ok)
• We are sometimes judged by non-christians … how does that make you feel?
SNACKS
• This Meeting = Paulsen
• March 9, 2010 = Koerner
• March 23, 2010 = Price
PRAISE / PRAYER REQUESTS
• Jamey: Prayer = Angie has bronchitis, and his Mom fell and broke her arm. / Praise = 3 weeks until their baby girl arrives. Scheduled C-section is 23 March.
• Dennis: Prayer = He is having a hard time with his weekly MS shot. He has been feeling stronger, and dislikes having the flu symptoms each week.
• Gary: His grampa had hip replacement and was finished with rehab after ony 3 days (they expected it to take longer). He is doing well.
• Missy: Prayer = Ray has been very busy lately with work and church duties.
• Paisleigh, Logan & Kaden: Prayer = they all have shots Wednesday.
• Tim: Prayer = A friend is having marriage problems. Praise = They are not moving! Hard decisions have been resolved.
• Todd: Prayer = Our group has been going for 2.5 years, praying for the people that are no longer in the group – may they find support elsewhere.
REMINDERS
• Please bring a cash donation (whatever amount you feel you can give) to the next meeting to go towards a cross for our church. It will need to be approved by Eric, but we want to give a donation so that we can have that symbol in the church building somewhere.
9 Feb 2010
Adults = 14
SITTER
Markie.
Please remember to bring $5 / per child - for child care.
OPENING
• Anti-Nomatism = Against the law
• Sanctify = To make Holy
DVD LESSON
Romans (Lesson 9) = Sanctify
Being saved is the beginning of your being renewed to the knowledge from our creator.
Romans 6:1-12
In session nine Paul teaches that we are saved from the penalty of sin, we are being saved from the power of sin, and we will be saved from the presence of sin. He shows us that we are a new creation in Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 6
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
GROUP DISCUSSION
• We can not expect to be “sin-less”, but we DO need to try to SIN LESS!
• We fall down, but we get up, for a sin is just a sinner who fell down.
• Sometimes we put a label on things, rather than admit fault / sin
SNACKS
• Thank you: Tim & Jennifer for snacks
• Next time = Paulsen Family
PRAYER REQUESTS
• Gary / Friend had a bad reaction to anastesia after surgery – but now feels glad that she has been able to witness to others. She found something good out of her hardship.
• Gary / Grampa is doing hip rehab after his surgery.
• Jennifer / Ron’s co-worker died of cancer
• Angie Brady / Dad had surgery, he is now in CCU all week.
• Jennifer Dasinger / Friend in Kershaw, 34 was diagnosed with breast cancer.
PRAISE
• Jennifer / Dad is doing better
• Gary / Chris Hawks is doing better after heart attack
• Tim / had a good experience in ATL
• Todd & Gary / had good b-days
• Loftis / Had a good trip to Lousianna (although it was a long drive)
• We had 586 at church on Sunday
• Todd / Shelly had the baby
REMINDERS
• Next Session is Romans 10 (Chapter 6)
• Meals for Koerners: If you’d like to take a meal, contact Michele Loftis
• 2 services start on Feb 21
• Winter Jam = 19 Feb “family friendly event”
26 Jan 2010
• 14 Group members were present
SITTER
Miss Markie
Please remember to bring $5 / per child - for child care.
OPENING
What are your goals for 2010?
DVD LESSON
Romans 5:15-21 (Lesson 8) “Grace”
In session eight Paul tells us how broad and how deep God’s love is for us. Paul shows that sin no longer reigns in us, but grace. And because of His grace, we will reign with Him forevermore.
CHAPTER 5
15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.
17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.
20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
21 So that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
GROUP DISCUSSION
• What will Heaven be like?
• How does Gods love change the way we see ourselves? Others?
SNACKS
• Thank you to Kene & Ijea for providing yummy snacks for this meeting.
• Next Meeting = Tim & Jennifer
PRAYER REQUESTS
• Gary – Neighbor Chris Hawks had a heart attack. He had a 94% blockage, and a stint was put in. He is expected to recover nicely over the next 2 + Months.
• Gary – Miss Tanner, a new Christian, who is also new to our church.
• Jennifer D – Father is going into the hospital for a pace maker this week.
• Angie B. – Father is going into the hospital for a week, for his heart.
• Todd – A friend at work, her son has RSV (11 months old).
• Tim – Uncle has a drug problem.
• Kris – Cousin Bruce (in Texas) is going thru rehab. He was addicted to pain meds.
• Gary – Patience with all of our children / stress from their behavior.
PRAISE
• Todd – Chris Hawks is going to be “ok”.
• Jenn – guy at work is well now.
• Todd & Michele – travelling to see their new little nephew.
REMINDERS
• Sunday after church & lunch = Come over to Gary & Angie’s home for Cake & Ice Cream to celebrate Todd & Gary’s Birthdays.
Group Roster
~ R O S T E R ~
Updated: 10 March 2010BLIGHT: Gary & Angie
Children = Logan + Kaden
39 Lee Ridge Court
Columbia, SC 29229
(Home) 803-699-8882
(Gary) 803-466-1853
gblight@summit-mortgage.com
(Angie) 803-466-4923
alblight@sc.rr.com
BRADY: Jamey & Angie
Children = Michael + Taylor Ashleigh
5 White Wing court
Columbia, SC 29229
(Home) 803-865-8243
(Jamey) 803-606-9022
JBrady@scana.com
(Angie) 803-606-9026
DANIELS: Rob & Morgan
640 Crestmont Road
Columbia, SC 29229
(Rob) 803-546-9971
rfdaniels82@gmail.com
(Morgan) 803-543-8087
morganlea82@gmail.com
DASINGER: Tim & Jennifer
Children = Kailen + Paisleigh
237 Woodleigh Park Drive
Columbia, SC 29229
(Home) 803-244-9335
(Tim) 803-463-7086
Dasingert@gmail.com
(Jennifer) 803-261-3942
Jenniferdasinger@yahoo.com
EWULU: Kene & Ijea
Children = Tiffany + Gio + Ethan
228 Indigo Springs Drive
Columbia, SC 29229
(Home) 803-419-0147
(Kene) 803-338-7853
kenewulu@yahoo.com
(Ijea) 803-338-7561
KNIGHT: Chris
Child = Bailey
216 Baysdale Drive
Columbia, SC 29229
(Chris) 803-331-6857
(Work) 803-434-6695
christopher.knight@palmettohealth.org
KOERNER: Ray & Missy
Children = Emmy + Luke + Aiden
62 Abbey Road
Elgin, SC 29045
(Home) 803-233-3557
melissa.koerner@gmail.com
(Ray) 803-960-6783
ray.koerner@gmail.com
LOFTIS: Todd & Michele
41 Lee Ridge Court
Columbia, SC 29229
(Home) 803-736-1002
(Michele) 803-261-5729
(Todd) 803-269-3483
mtloftis@bellsouth.net
MORRIS: Ron & Jennifer
Children = Kameron + Kaleb
229 Kenmore Park Drive
Columbia, SC 29223
(Home) 803-699-3881
(Ron) 803-331-5539
gococks76@bellsouth.net
(Jennifer) 803-361-8316
bumbaley@yahoo.com
PAULSEN: Dennis & Kris
Children = Joshua + Dakoda
108 Ashley Ridge Road
Blythewood, SC 29016
(Dennis) 803-727-2523
dennispaulsen@rocketmail.com
(Kris) 803-553-5531
thepaulsenpeople@yahoo.com
PRICE: Brandon & Cristina
2024 Lystra Road
Camden, SC 29020
(Home) 803-432-7079
(Cristina) 803-240-6208
(Brandon) 803-479-1397
priceb9@nationwide.com
Group Information
We have done many different group bible studies & also really grown as friends over the past couple of years.
This group meets every other Tuesday from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Phone: (803) 466-1853 / Gary
Phone: (803) 269-3483 / Todd
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