- How does one explain the seeming abruptness of Jesus’s calling of Matthew and Matthew’s immediate obedience to Jesus’s call? (Think background)
- Matthew had a lot of baggage that made him an interesting choice to be one of Jesus’s apostles. Fill in the blanks. What can we learn from his background and Jesus’s calling him to be one of his apostles that might enlighten and encourage us?
- Matthew’s immediate obedience to Jesus’s call (see also Luke 5:28) is instructive for all Jesus’ disciples? How so?
- Do you know believers who have made what some may consider ‘hard choices’ (in worldly terms) to follow Jesus?