Quotes

Augustine, On Christian Teaching: So, anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them.

Luke 11:52: Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.

Eccles. 7:15: There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.

I will not hang my head
His banner is over me
He said I am his poetry
He won’t waste a word
I’m gonna wait, wait on the Lord
– lyric from the song Poetry by Taylor Leohardt

Questions

What were some takeaways from the scripture passage? What would you like to discuss from the sermon?
What do you believe motivated the lawyer to ask Jesus, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Why do you think that Jesus asks the lawyer to summarize what is written in the Law instead of answering the question himself?
Why does the lawyer in the passage try to justify himself? Why and How do any of us try to ‘justify ourselves?
Helping the man would have been a cost and required sacrifice for anyone who stopped to help. What did it cost the Samaritan?
What do you believe the lawyer took away from his interaction with Jesus that day?
How would you have responded to Jesus’ response to the man in verse 28?
Someone has said that “Until we see our failure to love perfectly we will not be able to love.” Do you agree with this statement? How might admitting this also lead us to love others and change the way we love ourselves?