Applying the text
1. Take a moment to remember your own past. What was your life like before Jesus saved you? What were you like?
2. How is your life different now because of what Jesus has done?
3. What needs do you see in our community? How might God use you to provide for the needy and powerless?
Connect People
January 12, 2020 • Pastor Jon Needham
Applying the text
1. What does the text teach us about the love of God?
2. Why is our love for one another the test for the genuineness of our relationship with God?
3. How is God challenging you to grow in your love for others? What specific changes need to be made in your life?
Love God
January 5, 2020 • Pastor Jon Needham
Applying the text
1. Matthew tells us that the question about the greatest commandment was intended to be a test. In what way do you think the lawyer was trying to test Jesus?
2. Why do you think Jesus made a distinction between the first and second great commandments? Why is this distinction so important?
3. How can understanding our inability to keep this command actually cause us to grow in our love for God?
