Week of June 27th - Galatians 5:1, 16-26

1. What grows in your garden or in your yard without your help? with your help?
2. According to Paul, if you were made alive by the Spirit, how come you still struggle with sin?
3. Since we are not under the law, what is wrong with indulging our sinful nature once in a while?
4. If not by rule-keeping, how then do we grow spiritually? How do these "fruit of the Spirit" (v. 22-23) make you more like Christ? How is this fruit formed?
5. Practically, what does it mean to "crucify" the sinful nature and "keep in step" with the Spirit?
6. Which spiritual fruit is "blossoming" for you? In the "bud" stage?
7. Which sinful acts are "dead and buried"? Which are "mortally wounded"? "Alive and well"?
8. How can you and the Spirit grow the one and kill the other?
9. Pray for one another....