Called to Build God’s Kingdom
Y11 – Sowing the Gospel Seed – Luke 8: 4-15
Key Words: Kingdom Building, Evangelism, Gospel, Forgiveness, Grace, Heart
- When verse 11 calls the seed the word of God, can we assume this includes the gospel: forgiveness and grace available through Jesus and his death on the cross… explain?
- Who scatters the seed? Who is the farmer (Mark 4: 26-29; 1 Corinthians 3:6 & 9:11)?
- How do those who hearts are like the path respond to God’s Word or the gospel?
- Have you met others who seem to be resistant to God’s Word?
- How do those whose hearts are thorny soil respond to God’s Word or the gospel?
- Have you met others who allow the desires of the world to choke out spiritual things?
- How do those whose heart is the rocky soil respond to God’s Word or the gospel?
- Have you met those who wither away spiritually because they never seem to find deep roots in God?
- How do we recognize those whose hearts are good soil?
- Is it the farmer’s job to discern soils and only sow in good soil?
- Was this even possible when sowing by hand in a day and time when there was neither farm machinery nor herbicides?
- Can the farmer even find good soil considering that he doesn’t know where a path might develop in a freshly tilled field, nor where all the stones are, nor where thorns or brambles may spring up?
- If it is a given that in the parable that even the most diligent farmer cannot help but scatter seed on a variety of soils, then what is the point of the parable?
- Why is it the farmer’s job to scatter as much seed as possible?
- What does this parable teach us about our responsibility to scatter seed today?