The Berean Table

Series: Get Right Bible Study Series · Companion: Full Study

A summary handout for Q1 Get Right (F3 QSource).

What QSource says: Before a man can lead anyone, he must get into “proper personal alignment” — like righting a capsized boat before he can make headway. It names three components in order: Fitness (self), Fellowship (others), and Faith (the Creator), and says a man must help himself first so he has something to give.

How we’re using it: QSource raises the topic; God’s Word is the authority we sit under. Nothing is written down — each man speaks his commitment out loud, and we open next time by saying how last week went. The goal is to draw near to God, obey Him, and give Him the glory (James 1:22).

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1. Who Rights the Capsized Boat?

I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. (Psalm 40:1–2, ESV)

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:4–5, ESV)

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” (Luke 18:13, ESV)

Bottom line: You don’t rescue yourself. You cry out, and God draws you up.

Discuss:

• Where are you exhausting yourself trying to “right your own boat” instead of crying out to the God who lifts men from the pit?
• What does “waiting patiently for the LORD” look like when you’re in the bog and want to fix it yourself right now?

2. The Real “Get Right” Is Righteousness from God

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1, ESV)

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21, ESV)

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8–9, ESV)

Bottom line: The deepest “Get Right” is being made right with God — received by faith in Christ, not achieved by effort.

Discuss:

• Have you pursued alignment in every area of life except the deepest one — being made right with God through Christ?
• How would knowing you already have “peace with God” change how you face your failures this week?

3. Self-Control Is the Spirit’s Fruit

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22–23, ESV)

For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. (2 Peter 2:19b, ESV)

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. (Titus 2:11–12, ESV)

Bottom line: Self-control is not manufactured by willpower; it is grown by the Spirit in a life surrendered to God.

Discuss:

• Which “all-consuming idol” (gluttony, sloth, or another) has mastered you, and where do you need the Spirit’s fruit rather than more willpower?
• Where have you tried to “grit harder” and failed — and what would depending on the Spirit look like there instead?

4. First Love God, Then Neighbor

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:30–31, ESV)

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matthew 6:33, ESV)

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21, ESV)

Bottom line: God comes first — not as one priority among many, but as the source that rightly orders everything else.

Discuss:

• Is God genuinely first in your loves, or a component you’ve slotted in after fitness and family?
• Practically, what gets your “first and best” — your time, money, and attention? What does that reveal about your true first love?

5. Apart from Me You Can Do Nothing

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5, ESV)

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God. (2 Corinthians 3:5, ESV)

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. (Mark 1:35, ESV)

Bottom line: You are filled by Christ before you can pour out — abide in Him first, and the help you give is the overflow of His life.

Discuss:

• Where are you trying to pour into others from an empty or disconnected tank?
• What is one rhythm of “abiding” you could build this week (Word, prayer, silence) before the demands of the day?

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Living It Out

Pick your Brick — one concrete, observable action from today, specific enough that a brother can ask “did you do it?” and get a yes or no.

Say it aloud: “Because God lifted me from the pit, this week I will ___. [Name], will you check me?”

Report back next time: “Last week I committed to ___. Did I do it: yes or no.”