Set Free: From Addiction - Message Study Questions

The Set Free series is about being set so that you can walk in the freedom Jesus gives. This week Pastor John spoke on being set free from addiction. Addicts don’t all look the same or have the same addictions. Smoking, alcohol, weed, meth, pills, compulsive shopping, gambling, exercising, eating, porn, compulsive use of social media, and the list goes on. Nobody ever says “when I grow up I want to be an addict,” it happens one decision at a time until one day one realizes, often in a painful way, that their drug, activity, desire controls them.

Here is the technical definition of an addiction:

Addiction: “the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity” “a strong inclination to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly”

Addiction comes with a cost.
Physical and emotional cravings, spiritual emptiness, broken bodies, destroyed relationships, ruined careers, dulled brain, deep feelings of remorse guilt shame. There is always a price to pay for an addiction.

1. Do you know someone struggling with an addiction? Describe.
2. Have you struggled an addiction? Share if you are open to.

Read Romans 6:16
3. Why is addiction the same as being enslaved?
4. What does it mean to be a slave to obedience?

Read Galatians 5:16-17
5. What does it mean to walk in the spirit?
6. How does walking in the spirit keep one from being enslaved?

Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
7. Why is important to not abuse your body?
8. Have you ever thought that taking care of your body is an act of spiritual obedience?

As a group, read Galatians 5:1 together out loud.
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1

1. How will you stay set free this week?

Pray for one another.