QUESTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS & SMALL GROUPS

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Sermon Discussion Questions
Date: August 17, 2008
Title: Where Are Your Manners?
Scripture: Matthew 9: 9-17

1. Read Matthew 9:9-17.  What sticks out to you about it?
2. Verse 9 says that Jesus saw Matthew the tax collector and invited him into discipleship.  What do you think Jesus saw in him?  How do you think it felt for Matthew?  What do we learn from Matthew’s response?
3. What do we learn about Jesus in verses 9-13?
4. How does the question about fasting connect with Matthew 9:3 and 9:11?  What do all three of these sections have in common?
5. What was something in the sermon that God used in your life?  What does God want you to do?