"About My Father's Business: Looking for the Broke (and the Broken)"
Study Guide

• The Story Backwards—Luke 4:30-14.
  
  
• If Jesus were to come home to us here today, would his reception be any better?
  
  
  • Or could it be that just like Nazareth, we want Jesus to come for all the ___________ reasons?
    
    
  • Want him to show up and prove:
    
    
    • That we are the __________ _______.
      
      
    • That we have the ________.
      
      
    • That we are the ___________ .
      
      
    • That we have the __________ .
      
      
    • That we have the ________ .
      
      
  • When will it finally dawn on us that there will be no Messiah's __________ until there is the Messiah's __________ ?
    
    
  • Luke 4:18, 19—"to release the oppressed"
    
    
    • I.e., to find the ________ and the __________ and set them free!
      
      
    • I.e., to spend more time in __________ ____________ than in ___________ ____________ .
      
      
  • But do we want the broke and broken hanging around here?
    
    
  • I fear we will build our _________ of protection so high that one day we'll find _______ of us outside the wall of our own __________.
    
    
  • And then we'll be just like ______________ .
    
    
  • Luke's gospel shows that Jesus' hometown got Jesus' life-mission backwards—instead of "frontwards":
    
    
    • His was a mission of __________ rather than _________ .
      
      
    • He came to __________ rather than _________ .
      
      
    • He died to __________ rather than _________.
      
      
• Will Jesus' hometown today get his life-mission right?
  
  
  • Or in our zeal to build a wall to keep ____ _____ , will we construct a wall to keep ______ ______ ?
    
    
    • God's 6 billion earth children
      
      
    • God's 60,000 Benton Harbor children
      
      
    • The poor and the prisoners—the broke and the broken

"To embrace this inner city
as if it were our hometown"

Answers: wrong, Chosen Ones, Truth, remnant, prophet, messiah, return, release, broke, broken, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, wall, all, making, Nazareth, inclusion, exclusion, repair, reject, embrace, exclude, us in, them out.