Bethesda Chapel, May 2000
Missions Month SG Bible Study #2

What do you remember about your neighbourhood as a child? Who was the friendliest neighbour?

1. Why did the expert in the law ask Jesus about eternal life? Was he seriously searching for an answer to this issue?
   
   
2. The priest and the Levite were Jewish religious leaders. The man who was lying on the road was one of their own countrymen. Did their actions show that they really loved God and their neighbour?
   
   
3. Did the Samaritan know the man who was lying in the road?
   
   
4. Did they belong to the same ethnic group?
   
   
5. Do you thing the Samaritan took a risk in stopping to help this man?
   
   
6. What did it cost him to help the injured man?
   
   
7. In God’s eyes do our ‘neighbours’ include foreigners in our midst?
   
   
8. Do our ‘neighbours’ include people living in other lands?
   
9. When God tells us to ‘love’ our neighbours, is that a feeling or an action?
   
   
10. From what you understand from this parable, does Jesus expect love to be costly and risky?

Missions have to do with bringing the good news and building up the church among people of different lands, languages and cultures. What more should Bethesda Chapel be doing to love these people of different cultures? What more could your SG do? How about you as an individual?