TEXT: John 14:1-11
QUESTIONS:
- Discuss the statement: “Surely a God of love would never send anyone to hell who is a good person. Jesus showed us a way to Heaven, but there are many ways as long as you are sincere in your faith.” Would Jesus agree with this statement?
- Do you agree with that statement? Why or Why not?
- Read John 14:1-11. What do you think Thomas was asking for in verse 5? How did Jesus make it less about geography and more about a person?
- Read C.S. Lewis statement about Jesus. Why do Jesus’ statements disqualify him from just being a good moral teacher?
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. Mere Christianity
- ”Jesus said: “When you see me you have seen the Father.” When you read the gospels do you see God the Father through the life of Jesus?
- Troy said that a personal relationship with Jesus must come before we can understand the exclusive statements of Jesus. Why is that?
Daily Bible Readings for the week of 01/17/2016:
Day 1: Psalm 34:17-19
Day 2: Psalm 112:6-8
Day 3:Romans 8:31-32
Day 4: James 1:5
Day 5: John 15:4-6
Day 6: Revelation 3:20
Day 7: John 5:39-40