June 12, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 24
LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN
Text: Amos 5:18–27
Topic(s): Social Justice, Compassion
Big Idea of the Message: Despite Israel performing the basic requirements of the law, Amos’s message denounced the people for their lack of justice and righteousness.
Application Point: Being made alive in Christ doesn’t mean we can just obey the bare minimum; rather, we are called to live lives of justice, love, and grace.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. Why is justice so important to God?
3. Where do you see injustice in the world?
4. How can you help the church do justice in the community?
5. How has your faith in God motivated you to seek justice for someone?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
