Investigating Jesus | Week 2
Week 2 - Pregame
Introduction
Admirers of Jesus didn’t shape civilization. The doers did.
Discussion Questions:
If your life were a commercial, what product or service would people say you were advertising?
Regarding your faith, have you become more of a consumer than an advertiser? If not, how have you kept that from happening? If so, what needs to change?
How has your faith journey been positively and negatively impacted by your encounters with other Christians? In what ways, and how so?
Read Luke 3:10–14, where people asked John the Baptist what kind of actions best laid the groundwork for the Messiah’s coming.
10 “What should we do then?” the crowd asked.
11 John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
13 “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.
14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”
He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”
What stands out to you?
What is similar about each of John the Baptist’s statements?
4. How is your faith currently on display?
5. What’s a specific way you could go above and beyond “legal” or “permissible”?
6. In what situation could you be more proactive—by protecting, serving, or honoring someone?