Our Resurrection Weekend services begin with our Good Friday Evening Gathering, March 29 at 7:00 pm, and conclude with our regular Sunday activities on Resurrection Sunday Morning, March 31!

Carefully Think

  • Read Matthew 7:13-29. List the different analogies Jesus uses in these verses? What is he teaching through each of them? How do they relate to each other?
  • Read Matthew 7:13-14
  • Why should we seek to enter through the narrow gate?
  • What is this narrow gate leading to? How do you know from this context (cf. 5:20; 7:21)?
  • What are the characteristics of the path to destruction?
  • What are the characterisitics of the path to life?
  • How many are on the path to destruction? To life?
  • When does this "destruction" or this "life" realized? Now or in the future? How can you tell?

Prayerfully Meditate

  • Why would Jesus describe the path to destruction as wide and easy? What would this look like specifically today? What leads you to those conclusions?
  • What does Jesus have in mind when he indicates that the path to life is through a narrow gate and a hard way? Give examples from what you see in your life or in our culture that would comprise this narrow, hard way?
  • How would you describe your life in light of these verses? What indications are there in your life that you are on the road to life or destruction?

Intentionally Act

  • Do you know someone who seems to be on the wide and easy road to destruction? How should you pray for them this week? How should this passage motivate you to pray for and invest time in them?
  • When you share the gospel with someone, how should this passage influence what you describe to them about the Christian life?
  • Why would anyone choose to follow a path that is narrow and hard when an easier, wider way is available? 
  • Make a list of what following the wide, easy path would look like specifically in your life. Make another list of what following the narrow, hard path would look like specifically in your circumstances and life.
  • Pray for those who will be leading our service on Sunday: Dawson Bryant, music; Mark Krystyniak, Elders' Prayer and Scripture Reading; Bret Capranica, teaching.
  • Listen to the music we will be singing on Sunday and prepare yourself to sing with the church. Consider how the lyrics undergird the message of Matthew 7:13-14.

Songs for Sunday

Morning
Evening

Lyrics

Morning and Evening Gathering - February 24, 2013 by Summit Woods Baptist Church