READ
Luke 16:1-13
CONSIDER
In Matthew 6:1-18, Jesus highlights three common spiritual practices of the Jewish people (giving, praying, fasting). For advent this year, we want to dive into these three practices as a way of slowing down and experiencing Christ in this busy season.
This week, we are looking at the parable of the shrewd manager from Luke 16. The challenge that emerges from the text is to be focused and generous with our resources in light of eternity.
Come join us as we continue to prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus by living out a call to be generous and invest our resources in a way that will impact eternity.
See you Sunday.
Pastor Tim Sreedharan
PRAY
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9
Lord, in light of what you have done for us on the cross, may we use the resources you have entrusted us with to invest deeply into that which is eternal and will never perish, spoil or fade. Amen.
DIVING DEEPER
Structure: story (v1-8); main point (v9); application (v10-13)
Read through the parable. How does v9 communicate the main point of the parable?
Read v10-13. Trust or trustworthy is used five times. What is the significance of this?
What is being communicated in v10-12?
V13 states only two options. We worship God or mammon (money). How does this truth inform what it
means to be a disciple of Christ?
Discussion: How are we intentionally investing what God has entrusted to us in light of eternity?