Oct. 13 Bible Study Topic: Money
Warm Up Question: If you had to eat one meal every day for the rest of your life what would it be?
Scripture Readings:
Matthew 19:24 “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Ecclesiastes 5:10 “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.”
1 Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 25:20 “And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[“
Questions:
- What does our relationship with money reveal about ourselves?
- Does love of money condemn a person?
- What does the parable of the Talents tell us about money?
- How can we maintain the right perspective on our money and its role in the world?
- Does stewardship concern only money?