1. What’s the difference between humility and humiliation (Luke 14:7-11)?
2. If Jesus said things like Luke 14:26-27 and Luke 14:33, why in the world would anyone want to be His disciple? Does the Church still preach this message today? Should it?
3. What are some common threads among the parables of Luke 15?
4. What is the basic message of the Luke 15 parables? How important must this be if Jesus stressed it in back-to-back-to-back teachings?
5. What is commendable about the behavior of the shrewd manager of Luke 16:1-9?
6. What would you say are some of the messages we should glean from Jesus’ teaching about the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16?
7. What will be the similarities between the “revealing of the Son of Man” and the days of Noah as well as the days of Lot? Have you ever experienced anything like this? What is the word to us?
8. How is God like an unjust judge? How is He unlike one?
9. What does the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector reveal about the importance of our attitude before God?
10. People felt Zacchaeus had disqualified himself from God’s grace by being a tax collector. Had he? Who is our “Zacchaeus” today?
11. It is believed Jesus’ prophetic words about the destruction of Jerusalem in Luke 19:41-44 were fulfilled about 35 years later. What lessons should America today draw from Jesus’ warning and Jerusalem’s experience?
12. In what way could it be said that the poor widow was a “bigger giver” than the rich putting their gifts in the Temple treasury?
13. Why was it appropriate for Jesus to infuse the ancient Passover meal with new meaning concerning His body and His blood?
14. How does Jesus’ healing of the ear of the servant of the high priest exemplify His earlier preaching?
15. What did the Jewish leaders accuse Jesus of before Pilate?
16. Three times (23:35, 23:37, and 23:39) Jesus was challenged to “save Himself.” Could He have? If so, why didn’t He?
17. Is there any significance to the fact that the first witnesses to the Resurrection were a group of women?
18. Following His resurrection, what does Jesus say is the connection between Himself and the Old Testament scriptures?
19. What are some clues we are given about Jesus’ resurrection body? How is it similar or different to our earthly bodies?
20. Matthew, Mark and Luke are sometimes called the “synoptic” gospels because they tell the story of Jesus in a similar way. What similarities and differences did you find among them?
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