Archive for November, 2003

INTRO
Q.) What is the last thing you remember saying “thanks” for, or you expressed gratitude for?
Q.) What is something you should have said “thanks” for, but did not?
Q.) Have you ever had to thank someone for saving your life or have you ever “almost died?”
- Explain
- How did you feel afterward?

Luke 17:11-13
Q.) What is leprosy like? Back then? Imagine the smell. Imagine the loneliness. Imagine the despair…the utter hopelessness and sense of doom…
Q.) What did they ask Jesus for? Why?
Q.) Have you ever felt hopeless before? Have you ever felt like you could never change?

Luke 17:14
Q.) Does Jesus “work a miracle” here? Does he touch them? What did they do? He told them to go show themselves to the priests … why did they go?

Luke 17:15-16
Q.) How did this man feel? Why? Why does the Bible note that this is a Samaritan? (Explain Samaria and half-breeds and Jews views on it…).
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