Opening: If told you (or your parents) were to have a child this year, how would
you react?
Scripture: Read
Luke 1:5-25.
Connect
the Text with Your Life:
- Of the major characters in this story - Zechariah, Elizabeth, John - with whom do you most identify? Why? With whom do you identify least? Why?
- When was the last time you doubted God? What caused your doubt?
- Consider Zechariah’s and Elizabeth’s character (verse 6) and struggle (verse 7). When have you been obedient to God and still felt forgotten? What does this story tell you?
- Reread verses 14-17. How is John’s mission a model for your mission today? How might you “prepare” people for the Lord?
Prayer
Focus: That we would 21st century John the
Baptists, “great in the sight of the Lord” and “leading people to God.”
