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Bible Study — “Talk Back”
| Date: | October 4th, 2017 |
| Time: | 10:30am |
| Ages: | Adults (18 and up) |
| What: | Explore more deeply last Sunday's
sermon and Bible passages with Rev. Maguire.
Discussion
Starters
- How do
you define authority? Who has authority in your life? Why do they have
authority?
- Can you
remember a time when someone in authority gave you bad advice? What happened?
How did you cope?
- Why did the Pharisees and Sadducees have such a hard time accepting
Jesus' authority?
- In
Jeremiah 29 there was a conflict between two authorities. Why did the
people not want to listen to Jeremiah? Why don't people listen to
Jesus?
- How can we
see through the personal agenda of “authorities” to see the truth?
- In the scriptures, where does
true authority come from? Where does it not come from?
- Why did Jesus ask the
question about John's baptism? What did the question reveal about the Parisees'
hearts?
- What lessons
can we learn from the parable of the two sons? Which son do you think you are
represented by?
- What
does God want from His “religious” authorities? What does God want from
us?
- What do our
neighbours really need from us as followers of Jesus?
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