This week begins a series on the topic of grace. The main word Paul uses for grace in the New Testament letters is simply the everyday Greek word for “gift.” In our discussion we cover some of our modern North American assumptions about gifts and how and when they are to be given.

• How do you understand grace as a gift of God?
• If someone asked you how you have experienced grace, how might you answer?
• If gifts in the ancient world were understood as forming/nurturing relationship, how might God’s grace to us in Jesus do the same?