Why do some people will their wealth to servants or even pets when they have children?
Our Condition in Christ
1. How does it feel to be freed from rules of childhood (baby sitter, chaperone) to join the adults as equals?
2. Does “putting on the garment of Christ” make us wolves in sheep’s clothing?”
3. What is the connection of “baptism” to spiritual maturity?
4. Does Freedom in Christ enable me to dress however I want, eat what I want, and behave how I want?
Enslaved to Elementary Principles
1. How do you reconcile Jesus’ admonition to “become as children,” on the one hand and on the other hand, Paul’s exhortation to put away childish things?
2. Does everyone becoming “sons of God” remove all distinctions of race, class, and gender only with reference to the law or in every way?
3. What is the role of the law in the life of a mature Christian?
God Sent Forth His Son
1. Why didn’t Jesus come immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, or soon after to liberate humanity from the law?
2. Could Jesus have felt “under the law” during his life on earth?
3. Few of us know how it is to be freed from prison, but can being “freed” as in children’s games give us a glimpse?
The Privileges of Adoption
1. What are the privileges an adopted child receives?
2. At what point is an adopted child or foster child ready to call a parent “mom” or “dad?”
3. Why do we not address God as “daddy?”
Why Turn Back to Slavery
1. What are ways in which a child’s life is secure and safe?
2. What is wrong if grown up person wishes to return to the security of being a child?
3. Are there some who prefer the security of being a slave to the responsibility of being a son?
4. It may be childish, but is it wrong to prefer living under the law and being “guided” by it?
