Sunday Morning

Bible Study: “Walk”

2016 Eastern North Dakota

Synod Assembly

Sunday, June 5, 2016

And what does the LORD

require of you?

to do justice, to love

mercy

and to walk humbly with your

God.

-Micah 6:8

love do

walk humbly

Balige, Indonesia, Asia

Oka, Edwin, Angel and Nurhayati

Photo credit: C. Peterson

Photo credit: F.Ishida

Numbers 27:1-11

Questions: Warm Up

• Who in your life has modeled

“humbleness” and “courage,” and

what you have learned from them?

• Have you heard the story of the

Daughters of Zelophehad before?

• Back home, who do you know who

urgently needs to hear this story of

good news and faith in a merciful

God?

• Close to one billion people are

hungry, and about three billion people are not eating well (obese,

overweight and micronutrient

deficient)(UNFAO).

• We produce enough food to feed

every person on the planet (by some

accounts, 1.5 times enough), but 1/3

of that food never reaches the plate

(UNFAO).

• Less than one quarter of agricultural

land holdings in developing

countries is operated by women

(UNFAO).

• Rural women produce half the world’s food, and in developing

countries, between 60-80% of food

crops (UNFAO).

• In the United States, women farmers control 7% of U.S. farmland, a 2% decrease since the previous mark in 2007. These female-headed farms accounted for 3% of sales (USDA 2012).

• If women had the same agricultural access to resources and markets as men, yield gaps would close by 20-30%, reducing the number of undernourished people by 100-150 million (UNFAO).

Questions: The Info

Some interpretations of “walking humbly” name it as “walking attentively” with God. Given the previous information:

• What are some injustices happening today that we might pay more attention to as we walk humbly with God?

• What things do you care about, see and know that are missing from the list?

Questions: The Love Issue

• As God showed God’s love for us

through Christ, how can we truly

share and show that love for our

neighbors today?

• What holds us back?

• What compels us forward?

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