Lectionary Q for January 29, 2023

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Lectionary Q is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week's texts are from Matthew 2:1-12 and Micah 6:1-8.

What are your answers? What are your questions? Send them to [e-mail].

Here are the questions for this week’s passage:

1. This passage is usually called the Beatitudes. This work comes from Greek which can mean blessed or happy. Is there a difference between being blessed and being happy?
2. How would you describe the people Jesus called blessed?
3. What do the beatitudes say about following Jesus? Is following risky or easy?
4. What do the Beatitudes have to say about the state of the world?

Let’s ask some questions from Micah:

1. The first part of the passage has the prophet speaking for God. How would you describe God’s feelings?
2. Why was God not interested in the response from people?
3. In verse 8 it says, “He has told you, O mortal, what is good,” which seems to be the biblical way of saying “You already know what I want.” Do you think the people really knew what God wanted?
4. Verse 8 uses the word, “require.” Does require something from us or does God desire something from us?`

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