The Good Life Study: Do Not Steal

1. What was your biggest takeaway from the video teaching time? Why do you think this commandment was included among the Ten? What does it have to say about the ways we view money and possessions?

2. Read Exodus 20:15 and Deuteronomy 5:19. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘stealing’? What are some of the seemingly small ways we steal today? How can these small acts have a huge impact? How do we all feel the effects of theft?

3. Why is it that our hearts and habits are so driven by accumulation? Why do we want to get as much as possible – even if it comes at the expense of our neighbor? How is the violation of this command a distrust of God’s provision?

4. How is generosity both the antithesis and the antidote to the eighth commandment? How does it motivate us to see our lives as more than just our money and possessions? How does generosity paint a living, breathing example of the Gospel? In what ways does generosity remind us of who our stuff – and our lives – belongs to?

5. Read Matthew 6:19-21. What does Jesus mean when He tells us to store up “treasures in heaven”? How do these treasures compare to treasures on earth? What’s one practical step you need to make to change how you view the nature of true treasure?