5-15-22
May 15, 2022

Guilt and Repentance

Various Texts
May 15, 2022

Main point: God’s Word helps the believer to understand guilt and know how to deal with it biblically through genuine repentance.

I. Understanding Christ’s Substitutionary Atonement

II. Understanding Guilt

III. Understanding Repentance

Questions for Spiritual Growth

Our Cornerstone mission is To Know Christ and Make Him Known. Community Groups help us to live out our mission as Family, Missionaries, and Servants.

  1. Why is Christ’s Substitutionary Atonement crucial to understand when dealing with our guilt?

  2. What is the difference between shame and guilt?

  3. In what ways is guilt good for our souls?

  4. We all have a conscience. Why might some people respond to various issues differently?

  5. What are some unbiblical ways that we might deal with our guilt?

  6. What are some unbiblical ways we try to hide from the problem that causes our guilt?

  7. What is the problem with “forgiving ourselves” (Psalm 51:4)?

  8. What are some biblical ways of dealing with our guilt?

  9. What is repentance? What are some of the components of repentance?

  10. What is worldly grief (2 Corinthians 7:10)

  11. In light of today’s sermon, how can we be praying for one another? What gives you hope from today’s message?