Leader: for your review:
This passage deals with some of the great mysteries of the Bible. A look at the previous week’s topics are a good place to begin your study but much more time and research should be done on this topic. While this discussion is grouped as one week, in all reality it should take about 6 weeks to get through.
Discussion question: Why does Paul go through some of the fathers of the faith to discuss how God’s Word has not failed?
Discussion question: What is the outcome knowing that some who were descendants of Abraham were not children of the promise?
Discussion question: Verse 11 is a difficult verse with lots of different interpretations, what is the meaning of “God’s choice” and “Him who calls”?
Discussion question: Verse 14 is another human question that Paul rhetorically asks knowing that that is the human response to what he has just discussed, but how do vv15-18 actually answer this question?
Discussion question: What can we draw from verse 18?
Discussion question: Summarize or put into your own words what question is being asked in v19.
Discussion question: Summarize the answer given in vv20-29.
Discussion question: What should our attitude and response be after reading through vv20-29?
Discussion question: What is one of the common threads that seems to run throughout the book of Romans? See v32.
