This Life Group season runs from April 7-May 26, 2024
Let’s take a cruise along the Romans Road.
- What elements of the Romans Road make the most sense to you?
- Which parts of the Road do you think are easiest to explain to someone who is unfamiliar with what it means to follow Jesus? Why?
- Which portions of the Road need the most explanation to someone who is unfamiliar with Jesus and following him?
- What verses would you add or change to the Romans Road that would provide more clarity or depth for someone who is unfamiliar with what it means to follow Jesus? (You can even choose verses that are not in Romans, if you like!)
- What Scripture passages were most significant for you when you first said “yes” to Jesus?
The Romans Road
All passages from the NIV translation.
Romans 3:23.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8-9.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
Romans 10:9-10.
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
Romans 5:1-5.
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 8:1-8.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.