Luke 16:1-18
Key Verse: 16:9 “I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
1. Upon learning that he was about to be fired, what did the dishonest manager do and why? (1-7)
2. How do “people of the world” use their wealth shrewdly? (8) How should “people of the light” use their worldly wealth? (9)
3. Read verses 10-12. What do these verses teach about who can be entrusted with true riches?
4. Why is it impossible to serve both God and Money? (13) How did the Pharisees reveal their own hypocrisy? (14-15)
5. What does it mean that everyone is forcing his way into the kingdom? (16; RSV–“everyone enters it violently.”) How did Jesus emphasize that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it? (17-18)