Galatians 6:1-5

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 

1. {REMINDER} What was your main takeaway from Sunday?

2. {ECCLESIOLOGY} How does this passage influence your view of church

discipline and restoration?

3. {BIBLICAL THEOLOGY} What are the similarities and differences between Jesus’

teaching in Matthew 18:15-20 and Paul’s teaching here in Galatians 6:1-5?

4. {RELATIONAL} Have you ever had a conversation with a brother or sister about

their walk (being caught in transgression) with a desire to restore them? How

did it go? How can we turn our hearts and actions to mending/restoring

instead of judging and shaming? (conviction vs condemnation in Kyle’s words)

5. {COMMUNITY and BURDENS} How do we bear one another’s burdens from sin?

How is the burden-bearing of this passage different from the way we usually

talk about “bearing burdens?”

- What does this type of burden-bearing require of us—both as the

burdened and the caring brother/sister?

6. {INTERPRET} Explain the difference between verse 2 and verse 5. (burdens vs

loads, bearing with vs bearing for)

7. {GOSPEL} Where is the hope of the Gospel in light of all this burden-bearing?

(see Matthew 11:28-30 for help)