Galatians 4:21-27

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 

How has this passage affected your heart since hearing it?

What questions do you have about this passage?

Evaluate your own life—what has caused or called you to live as a child of slavery

instead of as a child of promise?

Read Gen 16:1-14 and 21:8-21 (Story of Hagar/Ishmael and Sarah/Isaac). How does

living under the Law connect to Abraham on the Hagar/Ishmael side of the

story? How does living as a child of promise connect to Abraham on the

Sarah/Isaac side?

God does not leave things barren or shifting—how can this promise, rooted in the

nature of God, be hard to believe. How do we remind ourselves of this truth?

- “Law leaves the nursery empty; grace fills it.” (Jack on Sunday, commenting on Isaiah 54:1)

Walking through the songs from this week, of which aspects of the Gospel proclaimed by Paul do these lyrics remind you:

- “How great is the love the Father has poured out on us that we should be called the children of God...” (1Jn 3:1)

- “O Loving Father, come and draw near us; we see your glory and know that you hear us...”

- “To this I hold my hope is only Jesus, for my life is wholly bound to his. Oh! How strange and divine; I can sing all is mine, yet not I but through Christ in me.”

- “You surround and you uphold me, and your promises are my delight.”

“What the flesh fails to produce, God creates freely by his grace.” In your own

life, where does this truth need to take hold?