Scripture Passage: Matthew 7:1-12

Questions

1.        Can you identify healthy ways that you can judge (discern or distinguish)?

2.        Share a time this past week where you caught yourself judging (condemning) someone?

3.        How do you process the fact that you (we) so easily do this?

4.        Is there any area in which you judge yourself as harshly as you judge others?

5.        Have you ever pointed out an actual speck in someone else’s eye?  Are you in the habit of attending to the cleanliness of people’s literal eyes?

6.        What happens to your perception if you have an actual 2x4 in your eye?  How does this inform the conversation on judging?

7.        How do you reconcile the fact that Jesus is talking about dogs and pigs when he is most likely referring to people, not animals?

8.        In your words what does it mean to throw pearls to pigs?  Share a time when you may have done this.

9.        When Jesus says “ask, seek and knock”, what do you assume about what will be given? 
Is this suggesting you will get the new expensive toy you ask for?

10.    Do you know how to give good gifts?  If yes, why does Jesus still call you “evil”?  How do you take that?

11.   Each share something you would ask God for and then spend time praying for those things.