Pete Scribner Sermons

Sermon review/study questions: 1-What reasons do we have to believe that the scribe’s question in this passage is not a trap like those of others who have recently confronted Jesus? (Hint: What is different about both the way he comes asking and the way Jesus responds?) 2-In answering, Jesus first references the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4-5. How does the first part of the Shema (“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”) relate to the second part (“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”)? 3-After this, Jesus quotes Leviticus 19:8 in pointing out a second great command (“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”). How does this second command relate to the first? 4-When the scribe concurs with Jesus, he points out that true love of God and true love of neighbor are more important than all the religious activity we might be involved in. What might you do to make love of God and love of neighbor more central t