Gospel Line Dance Ministry Meeting

Welcome to the Gospel Line Dance Ministry! We are meeting at the Point Loma Campus.

1st Floor, Room 144 (behind the community room)

After you enter the lobby, walk past the elevators and the community room, go through the double doors on your right, and walk all the way down the walkway almost to the end. Room 144 will be on your right.

Study (6:00pm-7:00pm) and line dancing (7:00pm-8:00pm).

During our study time, we will study and discuss Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (discussion questions below). During our line dancing time, we will learn easy beginner level line dances.

SERMON ON THE MOUNT STUDY - HOW TO REALLY LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

Read: Matthew 5:38-48

Group Discussion: A friend keeps borrowing things from you but either fails to return them or returns them damaged. Confrontation has done no good. Do you (a) make the friend pay for anything lost or damaged, (b) refuse to loan anything else to your friend, or (c) continue to loan anything he or she asks for? Explain.

Personal Reflection: When have you found it difficult to forgive another person?

Discussion Questions:

1. What do you find most difficult about Jesus' instructions in these verses?

2. Jesus' quotation of "Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth" comes from Exodus 21 :24. How would this instruction to Israel's judges clarify the meaning of justice?

3. Looking at verses 39-42, how would you contrast our natural responses in such situations with the responses Jesus expects of us?

4. What is accomplished by turning the other cheek or going a second mile?

5. According to Jesus, how are we to treat our enemies and why (w. 44-45)?

6. Does all this mean that Christians are to be doormats for the world to walk on? Explain.

7. How might you reflect your Father's character when you are mistreated?

NOW OR LATER

Read Romans 13:1-5. How can we reconcile Christ's can to nonretaliation with the state's duty to punish evildoers?