1.         SERMON RECAP

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a.       Faith leads to peace with God

·         Peace with God is friendship with God

·         Peace with God compels us to have peace with others

b.      Faith hopes for God’s glory

·         Boast in the hope to attain God’s glory – His likeness

·         Boast in our sufferings as it forms Christlikeness

c.       Faith produces hope that is assured by God’s love

·         God’s love is God giving Himself without restraint to us

·         God’s love strengthens us through life's challenges

2.         LIVE IT OUT

Share with your group concerning the questions below.

a.       The blessing of faith transforms us to be like Christ.

·         How can this understanding make a difference in our action/attitude this week?  Consider especially the areas where we are "suffering" terribly, whether at home or at work.

b.      The blessing of faith brings us hope.

·         How are we doing today when things go bad for us?  Do we rest in the grace of God, experience joy in God, and keep on loving people? Or do we forget the grace of God, brimming over with complains and becoming self-absorbed and critical?

c.       The blessing of faith gives us peace with God and with people.

·         Are there people we need to make peace with?  If there is any, do something today!  Pray and ask God to grant you humility and wisdom to act.

3.         PRAY

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4.         FURTHER REFLECTIONS

a.       When Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met in August 1941 on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales to agree on the Atlantic Charter, a church service was held for which Prime Minister Churchill chose the hymns.  He chose "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and afterwards made a radio broadcast explaining this choice:

We sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers" indeed, and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we are serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals ... it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation.

- Winston Churchill                                                                                                  

What parallels can we draw from Rom 5:1-5 and Churchill’s words?  How can we apply this Christian spirit in our world today?