To place this class in my personal focus this week:

1. Read Matthew 6:25-34 at least once a day.
2. Find moments in the day when you can think about these verses.
3. Think of specific, common reasons for people to be in anxiety over "the necessities of life."
4. Think of specific instances when God obviously, undeniably took care of you.

Questions:

1. State the ways that Jesus said that we should not be anxious for our lives.

2. What truth about "life" should make it obvious that such anxiety misses the true point of existence?

3. In verses 26 through 29 Jesus stated three things that can attack human anxiety created by concern for physical necessities. With each explain Jesus' point.

   1. The birds.

   2. The length of our lives.

   3. Clothing.

4. What is the relationship between the grass and the furnace (or baking oven)?

5. Specifically, why did Jesus refer to his audience as people "of little faith?"

6. In this context, the "Gentiles" refer to people who do not believe in God.

   1. About what things are people who do not believe in God anxious?

   2. How are Jesus' disciples obviously different from such people?

7. People who do not believe in God focus existence on caring for the physical.

   1. What do Jesus' disciples focus existence on?

   2. They live with this focus knowing what?

8. Jesus' disciples do not live in anxiety about tomorrow. Why? Explain those two reasons.

David Chadwell

Building a Healthy Faith Study Guide (lesson 6)
Sunday morning young adult Bible class, Summer Quarter 1999
West-Ark Church of Christ, Fort Smith, AR

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