1. What lessons, if any, do verses 1-4 teach us about evangelism?

2. Wouldn't Jesus expect his evangelists to be trampled over since he says, "I am sending you out like lambs among wolves?" (See Matthew 10 for another perspective).

3. What lessons, if any, do verses 5-12 teach us about hospitality? More specifically, how strange would it be in this day for a person to knock on your door and say "Peace unto this house, I am a man of God and I need a place to stay for the length of my visit in this town?" How would you receive such a person? How might your response differ from the response of those in Jesus' time.

4. Paraphrase what Jesus is talking about in verses 13-15 in a clearer way.

5. Based on verse 16, if I go to a bank and request a car loan, if they reject me, they have rejected Christ. Is this a valid statement? Why or why not?

6. Taking into account verse 19, how could walking over a bed of snakes of scorpions in a spirit-filled service be a testimony to the power we have in Christ? Whether it would or would not be, explain your answer.

7. What things has God "hidden from the wise and learned but revealed to little children"?

8. Explain verse 22.

9. What is it that the disciples were seeing that prophets and kings wanted to see?

10. What do verses 25-28 reveal about the knowledge of the law amongst the experts of the law?

11. Verse 29 says that the expert of the law wanted to justify himself. Why would he need justification and how would he suppose he would get it with the question he asks?

12. Considering verses 38-42, should Martha also have stopped her preparations to listen at Jesus' feet? How does this story apply to "church folk?"