Week of September 25, 2011

1. Read Matthew 21:23-32.
2. As a child, what kind of worker were you? How much did you parents have to yell and scream to get you to work?
3. What links the parable of the two sons (v. 28-32) with Jesus' encounter with the chief priests and elders (v. 23-27)? What do these two passages have to do with one another?
4. To whom is this parable addressed?
5. Describe the story. What is the father's request? What does each son say? What does each son do? The first son repented, what did the second son do?
6. Which group is like which son? In what ways?
7. How do you suppose the religious leaders responded to this story, especially Jesus' statement in v. 31?
8. Do you have a vineyard God has asked you to work in? Where is it? Who is there?
9. Which son's story is most like your own story of salvation?
10. Pray for one another....