1.
Why didn't Jesus give them a sign? It would have been an easy fix,
right? It would have shut them up and finally helped them to be
authentic followers, right? What's wrong with asking for a sign?
2.
Jesus compares the traditionalism, doubt, and skepticism of the
religious people to yeast in dough. How do those things work in our
lives? What are the results?
3. Here are the 5 questions that Jesus asked. Let's put them in our context and answer them.
a.
Why are you talking about having no bread? (Why do we always sweat the
small stuff? Why do the unimportant things always worry us and consume
us? How can we stop doing that and focus on what matters?)
b.
Do you still not see or understand? (How many times have we heard a
sermon on love, forgiveness, evangelism, discipleship, faith, etc, and
it seems to never stick? What causes that? Why are so quick to forget
the basics, which in turn causes our lives to seem like chaos
sometimes?)
c. Are your hearts hardened? (Do you ever read the
Bible or hear and sermon and automatically think of 5 different people
that need to hear it? How can you create a habit in your life of
wrestling with texts/sermons/Bible reading? Maybe you can take notes
during the message and then revisit them during the week. Maybe you can
focus on ways that this text applies to your life/situation/job/
d.
Do you have eye but fail to see and ears but fail to hear? (Are you so
desperate for the big things that you miss the little ways that God is
daily moving in your life and around you? Do you have a plan for your
life/prayers that you want God to follow? If he answered those prayers
in some other way, would you even notice?)
e. Don't you
remember? (Do you ever take time to think about what God has done for
you in the past? How he has provided, sustained, spoken to you, helped
you?
4. How do you identify the ways that God
is moving in your life every day? How can you move from "wanting more
signs" to "acknowledging what God has done and worshipping Him for
those?"
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