13th Sunday after Pentecost Luke 14:25-33

Introduction

1. What are the lessons about letting go that Jesus wants the crowd of would-be disciples to learn? How are those lessons to be translated into the language of today’s world? What kind of paraphrase would you write?

2. How does Jesus redefine what it means to "hate" what is most dear to us?

3. Jesus’s call to renounce or let go of our possessions hits hard. How does it change our thinking and…