February 2, 2025

How to Be "We"

Unity in Diversity

Icebreaker:

Discussion:

1. Read Colossians 3:11-17 and Galatians 3:26-29.
   1. What do you know about the differences between the groups of people mentioned in verse 11?
      1. What are some things that Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians (Greek, Roman, etc.) would have argued about?
      2. What were the spiritual arguments the circumcised and uncircumcised would have had?
      3. What did the Greeks think of the Barbarians?
      4. What did they think of the Scythians?
      5. How were slaves and freemen different, and how would they have seen each other?
      6. How were men and women treated differently in the Greek, Roman, and Jewish worlds?
   2. Paul tells us in vs 12 through 14 to "clothe" ourselves with a list of virtues. How do these each of these virtues help us overcome division?​
      1. ​How does showing compassion to people who are different from you or have different opinions than you help overcome division?
         
      2. How does showing kindness overcome division?
      3. How does humility overcome division?
      4. How does gentleness overcome division?
      5. How does patience overcome division?
      6. How does bearing (enduring, putting up) with others overcome division?
      7. How does forgiving others overcome division?
      8. How does love overcome division?
         
   3. What does it mean to let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts? How does that overcome divisions?
   4. So, in light of all these above, what does it look like to teach and admonish (correct, reprove, warn) one another in undivisive ways?

Prayer
Take time to ask for personal prayer requests and pray for each other.