So if you came to our study tonight on Galatians 3:26-29, I hope you might contribute to the discussion. Share anything you like but here are a few questions if they help.
1. When have you felt excluded by some one or some group? How did it make you feel?
2. Remember this quote from Robert Stein? “The possibility that one could have faith but not be baptized was not even perceived as an option by Paul. In this passage Paul neither exalts faith at the expense of baptism nor baptism at the expense of faith. They are integrally related, and each assumes the other.”
Does it make sense to you that faith and baptism are connected and related in conversion?
3. Did the illustration of a wedding ceremony make sense in our discussion of baptism? Why or why not?
4. Do you tend to place greater emphasis on faith or baptism? Why do you think that is?
5. Talk about how it’s good news that we are not excluded from a relationship with Christ based on the world’s traditional categories of exclusion.
Hope to hear from you!