- How were you encouraged, challenged, convicted by meditating on the gospel in Luke?
- How does understanding that we are all sinners that are desperately in need of God’s grace give us compassion for those who are in need? What does understanding the depth of God’s mercy produce in us?
- Why does self-righteousness and self justification cut off compassion and actually cause us to view others with contempt? How does lowering God’s standards actually cause us to compare ourselves with others and look down on people different from us?
- This would be a great night just to hear each other’s stories, and to hear about experiences and hardships that others have gone through to help us 1) better understand and feel compassion for people different from us, and 2) better understand potential blind spots or prejudices we may have.
- What types of people (or sins that people commit) do I personally have a tough time feeling compassion for? What types of people are most easy for me to prejudge? What may this reveal about my heart?
- How can we continue to pursue the beautiful unity we have in Christ as a body?
