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Mt 13:24-30, 36-43
1. Are you a gardener? What weeds have you had to battle most in your yard or garden? How have you dealt with them?
2. The parable doesn't explain how the evil one gets into the good field and among the good seed. What do you think the evil one was trying to accomplish by sowing bad seed in with the good?
3. Augustine said that the church is full of wheat and tares, of saints and sinners. How has this truth been a challenge for you in your church life? Does acknowledging this give you more peace or make you frustrated? Why?
4. All of us struggle with the desire to judge and eliminate tares. Reflect on a recent time that this was true for you. Can you recall a time when you initially judged someone or something as a tare, only to find that they/it was actually wheat?
5. What concerns you most about the injunction to be patient with the tares and wait for the final harvest for it to be sorted out? What prayer or practices might help heal our desire to judge and eliminate tares?
6. What are the tares growing within you? How might you offer these up to God for healing? How has God used your tares to grow good wheat within you?
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