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Mt 25:14-30
1. What was your best subject or favorite activity in school?
2. How does it affect your understanding of this parable to know that Jesus told it as he was speaking of faithful discipleship while waiting for his return?
3. Can you think of a time when you found yourself under judgment (like the third slave) for doing what you thought was the safe and prudent thing to do?
4. In what ways are you living as if God is harsh, looking for an opportunity to 'smite' you? How does this inhibit you from stepping into some adventures on his behalf? How does it keep you from living into who you were created to be?
5. Think of an instance where you trusted God and were willing to step into something scary based on that trust. How did that turn out for you? What did you learn about yourself and your abilities? How did you grow?
6. It really is our fear - of judgment, of failure, of provision - that leads us to live small and tight-fisted lives. How has or is this fear true for you? How might you diffuse this fear and grow in your trust in God?
7. How are you 'investing' in God's world?
8. Mtr. Mary said that our faith life is to be an adventure. How would you describe your faith life? Predictable, comfortable, variable, an emergency lifeline? Could you use 'adventure' to describe your faith life?
9. If the master returned today, how do you think he would receive your 'accounting?'
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