October 5th, 2025 - Practicing Your Righteousness

Passage in focus: Matthew 6:1-18

Questions

1.        Do you practice righteousness? How?

2.        What reward do you get for that?

3.        What is the wrong way to do it according to Jesus (verse 1)

4.        What is a hypocrite?  What is their error?

5.        Have you ever seen giving announced with trumpets?  When do you hear trumpets?

6.        What is the reward for a hypocrite?

7.        Can you keep one hand from knowing what the other is doing?

8.        How important is it to pray “in secret”?  What is the intention here?

9.        Have you heard a babbling prayer?  What is its goal?

10.   Read verse 8.  If this is true, why pray?

11.   Where did Jesus get this prayer?

12.   Which phrase does he want to emphasize in the Lord’s prayer?

13.   How do forgiving and being forgiven connect?

14.   Do you give?  Do you pray?  Do you fast?

15.   Why fast?  What is the goal?

16.   When does the reward for fasting (prayer and giving) come?

17.   What would your summary of this passage be?  Put in a sentence or two what it teaches.