Small Group Questions
Use this outline for personal reflection, as a couples or family devotion, or with a small group.
GROUP ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our Deacon Ordination and Annual Chili Cook-off will be on Sunday, February 26, at 5:00 p.m.
Discuss your group’s plan to host a “Jesus in the Passover” meal during Lent (Feb. 22 – April 8). A training session will be offered Wednesday, February 22, from 6 – 7:30 p.m., in the MFC for those who volunteer to host and/or lead the event for your group.
HANGOUT
What is an iconoclast? Do you know someone who fits that description? Does Jesus fit that description? Why or why not? Why do most religious people have difficulty seeing Jesus as an iconoclast?
HEAR
Read Luke 6:1-11
- What do these two encounters with Jesus have in common?
- What is the purpose of a signpost? If the Sabbath is a signpost, to what or whom is it pointing? What does the Sabbath tell us about Jesus?
- How had religion confused the signpost of the Sabbath for the real thing? Do we still do this today? If so, how?
Read Luke 6:27-36
- How does our culture respond to these words of Jesus? With what would they readily agree? With what would they disagree?
- We aspire to love everyone, always. That’s simple to say but hard to do. It sounds great but may not be as popular as it might seem. Why?
- Is there a person (or kind of person) you find particularly challenging to love? Is there a particular time or circumstance when you find it hard to love?
Read Luke 6:37-42
- What do you find most convicting or compelling about these verses?
- Would the person who knows you best say that you are judgmental? What makes you think so?
- What will you do this week to be more loving and less judgmental?
HUDDLE
Confess any ways in which you are judging others or failing to love the way Jesus has commanded His disciples to love. Talk about it, invite accountability, and take time to pray together.
