Parables of Jesus Study Guide #3 (Parable of Two Builders and Two Foundations)

Begin with the song "How Firm a Foundation"

Share  your Highs and Lows for the week or since your last meeting

Read  the Lesson (Luke 6: 46-49)

Talk  and discuss among the following questions:

1) What image / person / situation stood out to you in the story and why? What did it make you feel or understand about God?

2)  You're not literally building a house, so what might Jesus be talking about here for our lives of faith?

3)  Consider and reflect upon a specific "floodwater" that has broken against your life.  Was the response more like "standing firm" or more like "crumbling" or perhaps a little of both?  What contributed to your or others reaction?

4)  What might it mean to "lay a foundation upon solid rock?"

5)  What faith practices can help us to build on "solid rock?"  

Pray  with and for each other (you can use the Lord's Prayer or sing the Doxology)

Bless each other by making the sign of the cross on each other's forehead and saying "The Lord Bless You and Keep You!"