Questions for Discussion & Application

1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
2. What group of people is Paul speaking about in Romans 1:18-32?
3. What group of people is Paul speaking about in Romans 2:1-29?
4. According to Romans 3:1-2 is there an advantage to having access to the oracles (Word) of God? If so, what is the advantage?  Does this advantage automatically save anyone? 
5. According to Romans 3:10-18, who has a sinful nature, sinful words, and sinful deeds?
6. How does the world seek to deal with people’s feelings of guilt and shame? How do these worldly remedies for guilt and shame, make it more difficult for us to convince people that they are sinners in need of a Savior? 
7. According to Romans 3:20, what does God’s Law provide for us? How might this relate to the obstacle of convincing people that they are sinners in need of a Savior?   
8. The clear conclusion of Paul’s argument in Romans 1:18-3:20 is that ALL people are sinful and in need of a Savior. Does this knowledge provoke an urgency in you to share the good news of salvation with the lost?  What lost person might you need to be praying for and seeking opportunity to be a witness to?          

Questions for Discussion & Application

1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
2. Who is Paul speaking of in 1:18-32?
3. What is the larger argument that Paul is making in 1:18-3:20?
4. Why is it important that we see ourselves as included in those who deserve God’s wrath, if it were not for His grace?
5. What does it mean to “suppress the truth”? What examples of this can we see?
6. Why are all people (even if they do not have the Bible) without excuse for not worshipping God?
7. Due to our rejection of God, what has God given humanity over to? (see verses 24, 26, & 28)  
8. How do we see moral disintegration in our own society? What is the true remedy that is most needed for this downward spiral in an individual’s life or in a society? 

Questions for Discussion & Application 1.  What questions do you have about today’s passage? 2.  In Romans 1:1-10, how many times do we see the name of God the Father or of Jesus mentioned or referred to by a pronoun? What might this teach us about Paul’s perspective? 3.  Why might Paul’s thankfulness for a church that he did not plant and for Christians who he has never met be surprising? What can we learn from this? 4.  Paul longed to be a part of an even greater work in Rome and beyond Rome among the rest of the Gentiles (as we see in verse 13). Therefore, Paul prayed earnestly that God would allow him to visit Rome, even while he submitted himself to God’s will (as we see in verse 10). Do you have longings to serve the Lord that you bring before Him in prayer? Do you submit these desires to the sovereign plan of God? 5.  What was one good outcome of Paul being delayed in being able to visit Rome? How have you seen the benefit of times when God said NO to a desire that you brought before Him? 6.  Paul expected that he and the Roman church would be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith (as we see in verse 12). How have you been encouraged by the faith of others?