This week's lessons: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 , Psalm 32 , Romans 5:12-19 , Matthew 4:1-11

Adult Student Pew-work

Focus Statement: “Unbind him, and let him go....”

  1. We hear the words of Jesus, “Unbind him, and let him go.” What are the “strips of cloth” that bind you to your own spiritual deadness?

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  1. How are you “unbinding” and “letting go” your brothers and sisters?

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  1. What range of attitudes to members of our congregation show when someone among us is released from the bonds of death?

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  1. What are your church’s memories or present experiences of barren existence, and how are you open to the movement, the breath of the Spirit, to bring this new life again?

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  1. What hospitality, what justice, what witness is the still-speaking God calling you to embody, in your bones, your flesh, your sinews, today, in your own setting of the church?

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Next week:Exodus 24:12-18, Psalm 2 or Psalm 99, 2 Peter 1:16-21, Matthew 17:1-9