Scripture Reading: Luke 12:13-34

Opening Question:

What part of this passage stands out most to you?

Core Question 1:

What situation prompts Jesus to respond with this parable? What does He seem to be saying?

Core Question 2:

What parts of Jesus’s teachings about possessions and worry feel challenging or uncomfortable for you?

Core Question 3:

How have you experienced the fear of not having enough or being enough? How have you experienced God’s abundance?

Core Question 4:

According to A. W. Tozer in The Wisdom of God, man is a spirit temporarily housed in a physical body. Tozer recommends doing the following:

“Go out in your yard tonight and look up at God’s stars and say, ‘I am part of the everlasting universe, and I will not respond to the voice of wisdom as if I were a man made for time, for God has put eternity in my heart.  Not as if I was a man made for this world, because God made me for another.  Not as if I was a man made of flesh, because I am a man of spirit.  I will respond as a man made for eternity.’”

How would it change your life to view yourself as a spirit made for eternity? How would it ease your worries? How would it impact the way you spend your time and resources?

Concluding Question:

Micah 6:8 provides a summary of the way that God wants us to live:

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”

How does this prescription for living compare to the life of the rich fool in the parable? How does it compare to the way Jesus lived?