Love: Building Healthy Relationships (Paperback)
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Excerpt
Chapter One
Chapter One
LOVING JESUSLuke 7:36-50
In the book Too Busy Not to Pray Bill Hybels writes, "To people in the fast lane, determined to make it on their own, prayer is an embarrassing interruption.... Where does the still, small voice of God fit into our hectic lives? When do we allow him to lead and guide and correct and affirm? And if this seldom or never happens, how can we lead truly authentic Christian lives?"
God calls every believer first to himself and then to ministry. One of the greatest dangers facing us today is our tendency to be so involved in various activities that we lose that "simple and pure devotion to Christ" spoken about by the apostle Paul (2 Cor. 11:3). God wants us to be filled with passion and love for his Son, Jesus Christ.
This story of Jesus and the sinful woman illustrates the kind of simple devotion that God desires.
Warming Up
1. Think of a person who has "fallen in love." How are his or her attitudes, priorities, and other relationships affected?
Digging In
2. Read Luke 7:36-50. How would you describe the setting of this story (the place, the people present, the atmosphere, and so on)?
3. In what ways does the woman demonstrate lavish devotion to Jesus (vv. 36-38)?
4. Imagine yourself at the dinner table. What might you feel during this woman's interruption?
Why do you think her actions offend Simon the Pharisee (v. 39)?
5. In what ways could we express extravagant devotion to Jesus today?
How might that upset some people around us?
6. What does it cost this woman to publicly show her love for Jesus?
What are the costs for you?
7. What point does Jesus make for Simon in the parable of the two debtors (vv. 40-43)?
8. Why does Jesus compare Simon's hospitality with that of the woman (vv. 44-46)?
(Continues...)
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- Publisher:Zondervan Publishing Company
- Date Published:Aug 2001
- Pages:64
- Language:English
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Chapter Excerpt
Chapter One
Chapter One
LOVING JESUSLuke 7:36-50
In the book Too Busy Not to Pray Bill Hybels writes, "To people in the fast lane, determined to make it on their own, prayer is an embarrassing interruption.... Where does the still, small voice of God fit into our hectic lives? When do we allow him to lead and guide and correct and affirm? And if this seldom or never happens, how can we lead truly authentic Christian lives?"
God calls every believer first to himself and then to ministry. One of the greatest dangers facing us today is our tendency to be so involved in various activities that we lose that "simple and pure devotion to Christ" spoken about by the apostle Paul (2 Cor. 11:3). God wants us to be filled with passion and love for his Son, Jesus Christ.
This story of Jesus and the sinful woman illustrates the kind of simple devotion that God desires.
Warming Up
1. Think of a person who has "fallen in love." How are his or her attitudes, priorities, and other relationships affected?
Digging In
2. Read Luke 7:36-50. How would you describe the setting of this story (the place, the people present, the atmosphere, and so on)?
3. In what ways does the woman demonstrate lavish devotion to Jesus (vv. 36-38)?
4. Imagine yourself at the dinner table. What might you feel during this woman's interruption?
Why do you think her actions offend Simon the Pharisee (v. 39)?
5. In what ways could we express extravagant devotion to Jesus today?
How might that upset some people around us?
6. What does it cost this woman to publicly show her love for Jesus?
What are the costs for you?
7. What point does Jesus make for Simon in the parable of the two debtors (vv. 40-43)?
8. Why does Jesus compare Simon's hospitality with that of the woman (vv. 44-46)?
(Continues...)
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