Sermon Info
Sermon Date: 3/8/26
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 12:3-8
Title: “Many Members, Different Gifts, One Body in Christ”
Preacher: Pastor Luke Dufek
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 12:3-8
Title: “Many Members, Different Gifts, One Body in Christ”
Preacher: Pastor Luke Dufek
Announcements
After some fellowship, please highlight the information below to your group and have them check the weekly church email for more information/details.
- Please check out the weekly email for serving opportunities on the cleaning and window washing team.
- The men’s study will meet again on Wednesday, 3/11 from 7 PM-8:30 PM to continue through Joel Beeke’s book How To Lead Your Family.
- The next Prayer, Fellowship, and Feast will be on Sunday, 3/15 beginning at 5 PM.
- Men, the next men’s breakfast is on Saturday, 3/21 at 8 AM. We encourage you to come for fellowship and a teaching out of the book Meditations on Manhood written by Charles Spurgeon.
Questions
After some fellowship and prayer, read Romans 12:3-8 and discuss the questions below:
Paul warns believers not to think more highly of themselves than they ought. Why is pride such a dangerous threat to the unity of the church? What does Paul mean when he tells believers to “think with sober judgment”?
Which do you think you are more prone towards, thinking too highly of yourself (pride) or thinking too lowly of yourself (self hatred)?
“There are two things that we always have to remember. We have to remember first of all who God is, and second, we have to remember who we are. If we really know who God is, it should not be too difficult to figure out who we are. When we know who God is, then we know that we cannot make a move in this world of any significance, without the grace of God. Knowing that we are utterly dependent on grace for any achievement that we enjoy in this world, how can we be anything but humble. This verse prohibits pride and arrogance, a boastful exalted opinion of ourselves.
But the implication of the text goes deeper than that. What is also prohibited is too low an opinion of ourselves. If we only read the first part of the verse, we might think that we are worthless and insignificant. But our significance comes from God and whatever God assigns to us is valuable. You may not be as significant as you would like to be, but you are significant.” -R.C. Sproul
How does evaluating ourselves in light of the gospel help correct both pride and unbelief in the form of self hatred?
Paul compares the church to a body. What does this metaphor teach us about the relationship between believers? Why does God give different gifts to different believers? Which gift(s) listed in the passage do you think you have and how do you know you have it?
Have you ever thought that your role in the church is insignificant or unimportant? How does Paul’s teaching about the body of Christ challenge that thinking?
Why is it harmful when Christians take a consumer approach to church instead of seeing themselves as members of a body?
How does understanding that we are “members of one another” change the way we should think about our responsibility to other believers?
Close in prayer
How should we then live? What is one specific way you could serve the church this week or this month in order to build up the body of Christ?
Paul warns believers not to think more highly of themselves than they ought. Why is pride such a dangerous threat to the unity of the church? What does Paul mean when he tells believers to “think with sober judgment”?
Which do you think you are more prone towards, thinking too highly of yourself (pride) or thinking too lowly of yourself (self hatred)?
“There are two things that we always have to remember. We have to remember first of all who God is, and second, we have to remember who we are. If we really know who God is, it should not be too difficult to figure out who we are. When we know who God is, then we know that we cannot make a move in this world of any significance, without the grace of God. Knowing that we are utterly dependent on grace for any achievement that we enjoy in this world, how can we be anything but humble. This verse prohibits pride and arrogance, a boastful exalted opinion of ourselves.
But the implication of the text goes deeper than that. What is also prohibited is too low an opinion of ourselves. If we only read the first part of the verse, we might think that we are worthless and insignificant. But our significance comes from God and whatever God assigns to us is valuable. You may not be as significant as you would like to be, but you are significant.” -R.C. Sproul
How does evaluating ourselves in light of the gospel help correct both pride and unbelief in the form of self hatred?
Paul compares the church to a body. What does this metaphor teach us about the relationship between believers? Why does God give different gifts to different believers? Which gift(s) listed in the passage do you think you have and how do you know you have it?
Have you ever thought that your role in the church is insignificant or unimportant? How does Paul’s teaching about the body of Christ challenge that thinking?
Why is it harmful when Christians take a consumer approach to church instead of seeing themselves as members of a body?
How does understanding that we are “members of one another” change the way we should think about our responsibility to other believers?
Close in prayer
How should we then live? What is one specific way you could serve the church this week or this month in order to build up the body of Christ?