Greetings, all! The Koinonia Blog will now be the central posting ground for all things Faith Family, including the discussion questions. Here are Brooks' questions for this week...hope they're fruitful for your study.

1. Read Matthew 7:1-5. In what context have you most often heard Matthew 7:1 quoted in contemporary culture?

2. Do you think Jesus wants Christians to never address sin in others or make a moral judgment as to whether something is right or wrong? Why or why not?

3. Jesus called the Pharisees “blind guides” in Matthew 15:14, 23:16, and 23:24. What does Matthew 7:1-5 reveal about the nature or reason for their blindness?

4. Why do you think it is so much easier to see and identify sin on the lives of others while missing the sin in our own lives?

5. What does Jesus mean by a speck in your brother’s eye?

6. What does Jesus mean by a log in our own eye?

7. Roy Hession in Calvary Road suggests that the log in our own eye is often our reaction to the speck in someone else’s eye. Read 79-80 and describe a time in your life when you developed a log in your eye over someone else’s speck.

8. If some logs are our sinful responses to another’s sin, can it be said that those people’s sin “caused” our sin? Why or why not?

9. Jesus says we are to first take out the log in our own eye, and then we can see clearly to remove the speck from our brother’s eye. What often happens if we address the speck before addressing the log in our own eye?

10. How do you get rid of a log in your eye? (See Calvary Road pages 80-82).

11. Describe a time you allowed God to reveal and remove a significant log in your own eye.