Questions for Luke 10:25-37
- Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
- Series: Walls, and How the Gospel Brings Them Down
These questions go with the sermon from Luke 10:25-37 preached on April 11th. Click the notes tab to the left to download a pdf of the questions.
1. How did this Sermon convict, encourage, or challenge you?
2. Do you think it would be a good thing if all the social services provided by non-profit organizations and government offices went out of business because the Church was doing such a wonderful job of serving people and meeting needs? If so why? If not, why not?
3. It’s been said before that concern for others is as much a part of being a Christian as concern for self is for the non-Christian. Those following Jesus can trace their progress towards His likeness by tracking their growth in their concern for the spiritual and temporal needs of others. How would you counsel someone who seemingly has little to no involvement in showing love and compassion to those who should be their neighbors? Please use Scripture as the basis of your counsel.
4. Many times we serve others out of a sense of guilt or obligation. Sometimes we simply do not serve those who are hurting at all, one of the reasons being because some have brought their troubles onto themselves. Is this a legitimate reason? How should we serve and what should be our motivation, (2 Cor. 8:9)?
5. Most of us would say that our neighbor is someone who lives close to us. The lawyer in this passage was hoping to narrow the field of “neighbors” for which he was responsible for loving. What does this tell us about his heart and our heart when we think the same way? Jesus turns the lawyer’s question on its head and says, “It’s not about determining who your neighbor is, it’s about defining what it means to be a neighbor.” How does this change the command to “love your neighbor as yourself”?