Discussion Questions for Compassion week

Guys, I meant to be using the board last week and have some stuff written for more of a discussion but the stupid markers didn't work so I thought maybe we could do that here.

I'll post a few questions to get our minds going and lets just talk back and forth this week about some of what we are going through this week with all this compassion on our minds.

1. How can we as Christians, see others around us the way God sees them? Or in other words, how can we encourage one another to see the people we interact with (friends, family, enemies, strangers) the way that  Jesus saw people "with compassion"?
2. To show compassion for another person we may need to do a few things in our hearts first. Two things I can think of are; FORGIVE one another in order to have compassion and or PRAY for one another. What are some good passages from scripture that could help and encourage us in doing this?

Verses we talked about this past Sunday were:

• Matthew 5:46-48 on loving our enemies
• Matthew 9:35-37 on Jesus having "compassion" on them. Like sheep without a Sheppard
• John 4:7-27 on Jesus having compassion for the Samaritan woman
• John 8:1-11 on Jesus having compassion for the woman caught in Adultery
• Luke 23:34 on Jesus having forgiveness for those who were killing him.

Lets get a good discussion going on this topic.

-kyle

Compassion week

This week (10-16-11) we will be reading into the topic of compassion. I am very excited to explore a small bit of this topic, because i think that God is really going to speak into our lives this sunday and we will have immediate application with this topic for our lives.

We will be looking into the gospels and jumping around throughout all of them, looking at stories of Jesus' compassion and how that played out. We will look at how the way we show compassion may be a "law breaker" when it comes to the worlds standards of showing compassion and who we should show it to.

So come prepared with pure hearts and ready for God's word to speak to us as we read and discuss together a pretty sweet topic.

-kyle