The Reason You Were Born

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God brought you into this world with a truly incredible potential. Discover your purpose in life—and the reason you’re here. 

 ROMANS 6:1-13 

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed [cleared] from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 

 

 STARTER QUESTIONS 

1. God the Father and the Word, who became Jesus Christ, chose to create the entire human race “in Our image, according to Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). In what ways are you like God? (Especially consider how you differ from other living creatures.) In what ways are you not like God? 
2. How does God view sin? (See Isaiah 1:4-6.) Why do you think He views it this way? What makes it difficult for us to consistently view sin the same way? 
3. The Bible tells us that the ultimate reward of every Christian is to become fully and completely like God—perfect, immortal, powerful spirit beings in the family of God (1 John 3:1-2). What do you think are three ways your perspective will change when you become like God? 
4. Jesus said that He “did not come to be served, but to serve” (Matthew 20:28) and that true greatness comes from serving others. Being like God means learning to serve others—so what are three ways you’d like to get better at serving others? 
5. God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). What does that say about God’s love for the human race? What does that say about God’s love for you specifically? 
6. What does it mean to be a child of God? How does that change the way you look at yourself? How does it change the things you choose to say and do? 

This Bible Study Starter was inspired by Lesson 6 of the Life, Hope & Truth Bible Study Course (“Why Were You Born?”). Start the course yourself by creating a free account at bsc.lifehopeandtruth.com!