Sunhills Community Church > Sermons > Shaped for Generosity

Read Luke 16. What strikes you about the repetition of the mention of money in this chapter?
With the shrewd manager – what was his crisis? What was his plan? How was it ‘shrewd’?
What do you make of the last sentence in v8?
How does Jesus intend to shape us by this story (v9)? What would that look like in today’s world? In your life?
Put v13 in your own words. Where would you place yourself in this (you cannot serve both God and money)?
With the rich man and Lazarus (v19-31) – how does this setting again highlight the call to generosity?
This parable also has implications about hell – it is real, it is terrible, and it is final. Many people, especially today, want to dismiss or diminish the idea of hell. What would you say in response to that?
Why was the rich man condemned? Because he was rich? Because of his lack of compassion / generosity? (Note that what his living brothers need is to “repent”, v30; this is what he needed as well).
These two parables call us to generosity as did Jesus’ earlier parable in Luke 12:13-21. Why do you think generosity is such a big deal to Jesus? Why does ‘generosity gain in eternity’? What is the role of such generosity being driven by God’s grace? (For the good news of God’s generosity toward us, see 2 Cor 8:9, etc.)
What practical step or action will you take to make a move toward generosity?

Compare the parable in Luke 12.