Monday Lunch Bible Study – November 30, 2015 – 11:45 – 1:15 pm
Come bring you lunch, or buy something and meet in the HUB for conversation about life, and spend some time exploring the gospel reading for this coming Sunday. Check facebook around 11:40 am for the exact location. Can’t make it to the HUB today? You can read the passage and reflection questions below!
Luke 3:1-6
1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’ ”
Reflections
What strikes you in this passage?
How does John’s “baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” fit into Advent?
How do we “prepare the way of the Lord” in our lives?
What do the images from Isaiah say to us?
How are you preparing this Advent? For what?