Cole left us with a powerful benediction today:
1. May we be a people who know the pearl when we find it.
2. May we be a people who stay put long enough to know and to be known by others.
3. May we be a people who give our lives away - especially to the poor.
In lieu of 3 unique questions, please use the following questions and reflect on them relative to each of the points from the benediction. Take them one at a time, and if you’re with a group, share.
Questions:
• What does this mean?
• What does it look like? - give practical and concrete examples where you can.
• How would you describe where you’re at in relationship to this idea? To what extent are you someone who ?
• Where do you what to be?
• What might shift look like if you desire it?
18 Oct 2026
Ordinary Time 21: The Sower and the Seed
1. Tim talked about the incredible defense mechanisms that we have - individually and societally - against change. “Change” as he said, “is painful, costly, and unsettling.”
What comes up for you when you think about potential change? How would you describe your general orientation toward change?
When you think about Tim’s statement that change is painful, costly, and unsettling? What comes to mind? How do you respond to that statement?
What types of changes do you resist the most? What defense mechanisms can you identify, either in yourself or in our society, against change?
What things have broken through your natural resistance to change? Which catalysts have driven you to the most significant changes? Do you see any patterns as you consider change in your own life so far?
2. Tim also said that “faith without depth cannot be sustained.” What is “Faith without depth?” What does it look like? What are its unique characteristics?
What about faith with depth? What does that look like? What characterizes it?
What has brought depth to your faith? What has gotten in the way of its depth?
3. As he approached the end of his sermon, Tim, summarizing key parts of the parable, said that a foundational requirement for the Kingdom of God is a desire to change. He also said that “to be a Christian is to constantly be making up your mind about whether or not to keep being a Christian.”
What do you think about these two statements? Which draws your attention more? Why?
What in your own experience speaks to these two ideas? In what was have you seen a willingness or desire to change pace the way for God’s Kingdom?
Do you feel like you are constantly making up your mind about whether or not to be a Christian? Share about your own experience in whatever ways it does or does not resonate with that idea.
11 Oct 2026
Ordinary Time 20: Zacchaeus
1. Tim framed the story of Zacchaeus through a lens that was probably new for many of us. How did the story you may have learned as a child differ from the one that you heard taught today? In what ways were the meaning and take-aways of the story changed by the new way of looking at it? What new insights or ideas were prompted by a this unfamiliar lens? With new information and framing, take some time to ponder and then share what this story is “about” for you at this moment.
2. Tim shared that, for the first thousand-ish years of the church, the interpretation of Zacchaeus he taught today was the standard. Somewhere along the way, the standard undersatnding of the story evolved (at least in some parts of the world church). Tim also intentionally prepared us to learn a significantly different way of understanding Zacchaeus and his encounter with Jesus. How does it feel to realize that what we sometimes think we know as an objective fact about the Bible might be, instead, just one way to understanding it?
Tim shared the following quote from the midrash: “The torah has seventy faces; turn it around and around, for everything is in it.” What’s your initial response to this idea? What does it bring up for you? How do you feel about the idea that there might be many right or appropriate interpretations or understandings of a single Bible story? What if the same is true for all of the Bible? What surfaces for you as you consider that? Is there anything that feels like it should be “off limits” for this kind of consideration? Why or why not?
3. Tim highlighted several examples of times in which standard English translations might lead an English speaking reader into an understanding that is out of sync with the original Greek. Recalling other instances in which we’ve learned that this is a common challenge of translation in general, what does that mean when it comes to the way you relate to the Bible and its words as you understand them? Does it feel any resistenace to that reality?
n the landscape of your faith, what does it mean that some of what you’ve been taught may be anchored in misleading word choice on the part of long-ago translators?
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