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Study
Questions – Chapter 6
- What do you think of
when you hear the phrase “born again”?
- Dr. Borg says that
we may know of some people who have been born again “in a remarkably
unattractive way”. Do you think of any examples of this?
- “When being born
again leads to a rigid kind of righteousness, judgmentalism,
and sharp boundaries between an in-group and an out-group, it’s either
not a genuine born again experience or it has a lot of static in it.”
Discuss this statement from p. 104 in The Heart of Christianity.
4.
What behaviors and characteristics would you expect to
see in people who have been “born again” or who are centering their lives in
God? What behaviors and characteristics does Jesus expect in Matthew
25:31-46?
- St Paul says in Romans 12, “Do not be
conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”
Is this what is involved in being “born again”? What are the pressures
you feel to conform to practices and behaviors around you that are not
consistent with the expectations of Christ? How have you dealt with
those pressures to be squeezed into a mold?
- On p 118 of The
Heart of Christianity we read: “For the majority of us being born
again it is not a single intense experience but a gradual and
incremental process. Dying to an old way of being and living into a new
way of being is a process that continues through a life time.” How has
your experience of being a Christian compared to this statement?
7. Is there a phrase
that captures for you the change and transformation image in this chapter
better than the phrase “born again”? What is it?
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