Read Hebrews 6.
1. What does this text tell you about the character of God?
2. What does it say about God’s nature?
3. Where do you see God’s love at work in the midst of these verses?
4. What section or verses in the text speak most personally to you?
For context, read Hebrews 10.32-35 and answer the following questions:
5. Note all the ways these Jewish converts suffered?
6. How does their witness of suffering together encourage you?
7. Are we as Christians called to suffer with others? Who suffers with you? With whom do you suffer?
Read Hebrews 6.1-3 and answer the following questions:
8. What’s the heart of these verses? What is the writer ultimately trying to communicate?
9. Where do you sense God calling you to mature, to deeper trust?
10. What would maturity sound like in your life? What would it look like? How would a deeper maturity call you to love?
Read Hebrews 6.4-8 and answer the following questions:
11. What are a few of the varied theological implications in this text?
12. Thankfully, we are not given the ability or capacity to judge when someone “falls away.” What is our theology, our belief about our response to those who are lost, or far from God?
Read Hebrews 6.9-15 and answer the following questions:
13. Who is someone God placed in your life whose example is worth imitating?
14. How has that person been an example of faith and patience to you?
15. How has that person modeled ongoing partnering with God in the process of maturity?
16. How would you characterize the “way” and the “why” they pray?
Read Hebrews 6.16-20
17. Jesus is our anchor. How do you stay anchored to Jesus in the midst of suffering?
18. How might Jesus be calling you to trust more deeply in Him today?
In closing, spend some time reflecting on and praying The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6. Note the communal implications of this prayer.
Our Father in Heaven,
hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
