Monday, June 4, 2018

Parables of Jesus Study Guide #5 (Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector)




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

Read  the Lesson (Luke 18: 9-14)

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)  Consider a time you felt "better than" someone else.  It's human, we all do it.  Still, try to consider who it is that you may more often than not feel some superiority to.  Why do you believe that is?

3)  The prayer of the tax collector is so genuine.  Have you ever prayed with such heartfelt emotion? When? Why? What may have contributed to the tax collector praying so powerfully?  

4)  Discuss the following quote from Mother Theresa, "You never know Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you've got."  

5)  Where do you do your most honest and genuine praying?

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!"

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