Questions for Discussion & Application

1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
2. What does it look like to be a slave to sin?
3. What is the ultimate outcome of being a slave to sin? How do people experience now, a foretaste of sin’s destructive outcome?  What examples can you provide? 
4. What does it look like to be a slave to righteousness? How does the true Christian move from being a slave to sin to become a slave of God?  (See verses 17-18.)
5. How is the Christian to live in light of who he is a slave to? (See verse 19.)
6. How does Paul argue in today’s passage that being under grace does not encourage the believer to sin?
7. What evidence can you see in your own life that you have been delivered from slavery to sin and have become a slave of God?