INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN QUESTIONSWhen you were growing up, were there certain do and don’ts your parents gave you that you thought at the time seemed silly, ...  Read More

Day 13 - Luke 6:27-36 27 “But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. 28 Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also. If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also. 30 Give to anyone who asks; and when things are taken away from you, don’t try to get them back. 31 D...  Read More

Day 12 - Luke 6:20-23 20 Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said,“God blesses you who are poor,   for the Kingdom of God is yours.21 God blesses you who are hungry now,   for you will be satisfied.God blesses you who weep now,   for in due time you will laugh.22 What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man. 2...  Read More

Day 11 - Luke 6:17-19 17 When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those troubled by evil spirits were healed...  Read More

Day 10 - Luke 6:12-16 12 One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. 13 At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles. Here are their names:14 Simon (whom he named Peter),Andrew (Peter’s brother), James, John, Philip,Bartholomew,15 Matthew, Thomas, James (son of Alphaeus),Simon (who was called the zealot)...  Read More

Day 9 - Luke 6:6-11 6 On another Sabbath day, a man with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was teaching. 7 The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.8 But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with the deformed hand, “Come and stand in front of everyone.” So t...  Read More