Bible Discovery [29]

Date: February 13, 2005
Passage: Micah 6:1-8
Message: Great Expectations
Theme: Bible Discovery – Majoring on Minors

1. “Whether we mean to or not, we tend to create an “abridged” Bible of sorts, one that includes more passages from Matthew, Romans, Psalms and Proverbs, than from Ezekeiel, Zephaniah and Philemon!” Discuss

2. Share what you know from any of the ‘Minor rophets’

3. Review the historical setting of these prophecies. What was happening between the 800 BC and 400 BC.?

4. Read Micah 1:8-11. What does this passage tell us about Micah?

5. Read Micah 2:1-2. What does this passage tell us about other prophets around at the same time? What are the similarities to today? What sorts of things would some people rather us not preach today?

6. Read Micah 6:1-8. What does this passage tell us about God?

7. Memorise Micah 6:8

8. Discuss what it means to ‘act justly’. There is an objective sense of right and wrong but there is a subjective sense of right and wrong. Eg. Is it ‘right’ for me to buy a new car when missionaries are in so much need of financial support? Is it fair for me to have so much money tied up in technological toys when so many in our world have so little of life’s necessities?

9. Discuss what it is to ‘love mercy / kindness’. How is it possible to be absolutely just and yet without mercy? What does this look like in reality?

10. Share a time when someone showed you mercy. Share a time when you found it difficult to show someone else mercy!

11. Discuss what it means to ‘walk humbly with God’. What is the practical tension between walking humbly with God and ‘my rights’?