Monday, March 27, 2017

2017 LIFT Lenten Series on the Small Catechism (Week Four: March 29 - April 4)


SMALL CATECHISM LENTEN SERIES
10 Commandments
March 29 - April 4


Throughout our sessions of LIFT, we will be using our Faith 5 model of discipleship:  Share, Read, Talk, Pray, and Bless.

Share Highs and Lows for the week, day, month (whatever you choose)


Read our weekly scripture

Exodus 20

Then God spoke all these words:

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.
  You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything   that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the   water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship       
  them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for 
  the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those   
  who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth 
  generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house,

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.


Matthew 22:34-40

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”


Talk about the scripture and the discussion questions below

1) What about the scripture or reading captured your imagination this week? 

2) Discuss the commandments from the perspective identity.  How did the commandments set Israel apart from those around them.  Why is this still important to this day?

3) Discuss the commandments from the perspective of being "boundaries", i.e. laws and rules are made to keep us safe.


Pray for and with each other (or share the Lord's Prayer together)



Bless each other with a sign of the cross on each other's forehead, saying "God loves you and so do I"

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