Bible Study – Luke. Session 7: We and the world around us – authority and society (Luke 14-18)

I. A few days before the session, the following text could be sent to the participants in order to better prepare and be active.

1. Luke 14-18 can be divided:

a) 14:1-14;
b) 14:15-24;
c) 14:25-35;
d) 15:1-10;
e) 15:11-32;
f) 16:1-9;
g) 16:10-18;
h) 16:19-31;
i) 17:1-4;
j) 17:5-10;
k) 17:11-19;
l) 17:20-37;
m) 18:1-14;
n) 18:15-17;
o) 18:18-30;
p) 18:31-34;
q) 18:35-43.

2. In the table below there are several task, in order to prepare our session. Please try to complete the tasks.

Choose one of the divisions presented at point 1.

Read the text of the division chosen.

Try to name the type of social relationship that you can find illustrated in the text read.
Do you think that the type of relationship illustrated in the text is still relevant? If yes or no, please explain to the group why you think so.
Give a title to the division you chose and read.

3. The five diagrams below show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams below. In what type of society we live and which one from the picture below do you consider is the best one and suggested by Jesus?

(The diagrams are presented by Sarah Irwin on LSE BPP: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/lay-perceptions-of-inequality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishPoliticsAndPolicyAtLse+%28British+politics+and+policy+at+LSE%29)
(The diagrams are presented by Sarah Irwin on LSE BPP: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/lay-perceptions-of-inequality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishPoliticsAndPolicyAtLse+%28British+politics+and+policy+at+LSE%29)

I look forward to meeting you.

Revd. Bernard Noghiu

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II. The following materials are intended for the group leader, in order to prepare the meeting.

The group leader will invite the participants to present the chosen text in turn, to read it or just to make a summary if it is too long and to present it following the steps recommended in the table.

The leader will record the divisions chosen by the members of the group and will order them in ascending order, mentioning also the titles they received from the participants.

The next step is the one in which the group leader creates, based on the presented divisions, a new text, excluding the divisions that were not chosen. The leader will then present to the group the result, or how the text was rearranged.

At the end, the group leader will invite each participant to present the drawings he has chosen from the diagram and to explain why. He will write down the choice of each participant for both required situations and will make a general presentation at the end.

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