1. What is the significance of mentioning the various leaders that were ruling during the time of John's ministry?

2. Where else do you see the term "the word of God came to" so and so? What is that phrase identifying about John the Baptist?

3. What is the significance of where John was called and where he carried out his ministry?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1. Why is communion so sacred to the church? Isn't it just another form of religiousness?

2. What was the problem addressed in this passage?

3. What does it mean to take part in communion in an unworthy manner?

4. What was the consequence of some of the people in Corinth who partook of the Lord's table in an unworthy manner?

5. What are we called to examine before participating in communion?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1) Why is the story of losing Jesus and finding Him at the temple important enough that it made it into His life narrative?
2) What does this story teach us about Jesus' nature?
3) Why were Mary and Joseph astonished to find Jesus at the temple?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1) What is the unifying theme in verses 21,22,23,24,27 and 29?
2) What does it mean when it says that Simeon was waiting for the consolation of Israel? In what way is Jesus the consolation of Israel?
3) What is the significance of mentioning Simeon and Anna's prayers being answered in the coming of the Messiah?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1) Why is the story of the census important to the narrative of Jesus' birth?
2) What is the importance of recording genealogies in the bible?
3) What do you think is the main theme that Luke is trying to convey in his record of Jesus' birth narrative?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1) What was John the Baptist called to do. Name at least two things mentioned in this passage.
2) What was John the Baptist called to preach? Name at least two things mentioned in this passage.
3) What is the significance of stating that John kept growing and full of the spirit in verse 80?

Pre-Sermon Questions:

1) What does it mean to raise up a horn of David?

2) What significance does the bible have in names? Name at least three different ways specific ways names were used in the bible.

3) What is the difference between the Abrahamic covenant and the Davidic covenant?