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 - RELATIONSHIPS THAT ENCOURAGE

Read: Matthew 7:1-12

Group Discussion: How has your church helped you grow closer to God? When has it failed to support you?

Personal Reflection: Would people say that you have been an encouraging presence in the Christian community? Why or why not?

Discussion Questions:

1. What commands does Jesus make in these verses?

2. Why does Jesus tell us not to judge others (vv. 1-2)?

3. According to Jesus, why are we often unfit to be judges (vv. 3-4)?

4. What kinds of people do you think he refers to as "dogs" and "pigs" (v. 6)?

5. Why is it futile, even dangerous, to talk with such people about the gospel?

6. What encouragement does Jesus give those who ask, seek, and knock (vv. 7-8)?

7. The Jewish Talmud states, "What is hateful to you, do not do to anyone else." Likewise, Confucius told his followers, "Do not to others what you would not wish done to you. " How does the golden rule (v. 12) go beyond these commands?

NOW OR LATER

Further instruction about how we relate to other people is found in Romans 13:8-10. Read this passage. What debts does the author have in mind in verse 8?

Since we are not to use God's commands to judge and condemn each other, of what positive use can they be?

How would the "rule of love" apply to the relationship you thought about in question 10?