Discussion Questions

Week of: October 18, 2026 // Sermon Text: Galatians 3:15-29

Sermon Overview

The Law can't save you, but it can prepare you for the promise that anyone in Christ is a son.

(1) The Law Can't Save You (vv. 15-18)

(2) ...but it can prepare you for the promise (vv. 19-25)

(3) ...that anyone in Christ is a son (vv. 26-29)

Prepare

Before diving into the Digging Deeper questions, your group could take 5-10 minutes to prime deeper discussion as follows.

1. Read the passage

2. As a group, explain the passage in your own words

3. As a group, briefly recount the sermon outline

4. Open time to ask questions for understanding the passage or sermon

5. Pray for God’s help through the Holy Spirit to guide the discussion

Digging Deeper

The Law Can't Save You (vv. 15-18)

1. Why can’t the Law and the Promise coexist as ways to start a relationship with God? Or, in other words, why can’t you both achieve your way to God through obedience and receive your way to God through believing in Jesus?

2. You could never keep the law well enough to earn a right standing with God (justification). Justification comes by receiving God’s promise. Why is this really good news? How can you rest in this good news in the week ahead?

...but it can prepare you for the promise (vv. 19-25)

3. Josh preached that the law helps us see that certain things we do are not just bad but sinful. The purpose of the law is to help us see our need for a savior. If you’re a Christian, what was something you had to repent of when you first began following Jesus?

4. When we see things in ourselves, it can be tempting to diminish their importance, calling them shortcomings, challenges, struggles, or labels like that. However, the law shows us what God calls sin. How has God been convicting you in the recent past? What’s a sin you’ve confessed in the last year?

...that anyone in Christ is a son (vv. 26-29)

5. Being a son of God means getting an inheritance. Sons of God will inherit the blessing that God promises. How can you have more peace and joy in the days ahead by remembering that you are receiving an inheritance from God?

6. Josh preached, “We are one in Christ Jesus. One. Before we are any of the other things that distinguish us, we are Christians.” How might this change the way you come to Gospel Community? To Sunday service?

Prayer