WelcomeLet’s worship God together!

The mission of Northland, A Church Distributed is to respond to God for the benefit of others. Our vision is to see people coming to Christ and to be transformed together as we link locally and globally to worship and serve everywhere, every day. Join us!

Connect & GrowOur website has hundreds of archived worship services, stories about the great work God is doing and ways for YOU to be the church everywhere, every day. NorthlandChurch.net

For more information or to get involved as a volunteer, email Hello@NorthlandChurch.net or call 407-949-4000.We are located at 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood, FL 32750.

DIG

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R Luke 18:9-14

The Pharisee and the Tax CollectorFind others to do this study with you — friends, family members or coworkers — or join an existing group. You will understand more of God and better arrange your life around God’s Word as you pursue Him with others.

This week we are going to focus on the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector.

Share Your StoryHow and when did you learn to pray? Was it as a child, reciting memorized prayers, or as an older believer, talking to God in a more personal way?

JULY

29

-31,

20

17

The Parables of JesusThe Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Find Your Story in God’s Story

This parable is an emphatic repudiation of any suggestion that a man may be saved by acquiring merit. What the Pharisee said about himself was true. His trouble was not that he was not far enough along the road, but that he was on the wrong road altogether.

The tax collector was clearly under great conviction of sin. Lifting up the eyes to heaven when praying was normal, but his sense of unworthiness prevented him from doing this. He kept beating his breast, a sign of sorrow. … And he calls himself not “a” sinner but “the” sinner. He, too, put himself in a class of his own, but how differently from the Pharisee!

— Tyndale, “The Gospel According to St. Luke”

What error do you see in the Pharisee’s prayer? In his faith?

Clearly the tax collector is a positive example in this parable. What can we apply from him and his prayer?

How do you tend to approach God, to prove your own righteousness or to acknowledge your own sin?

As a group, how could you use the following words of Jeremiah as your application of this study? Spend some time boasting about God.

“...but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

— Jeremiah 9:24 (NASB)

Looking for Daily Devotionals?

Visit NorthlandChurch.net/ReadTheBible or download the Northland app to access daily devotionals and more.

10 of 10

READ LUKE 18:9-14

NorthlandChurch.net/ParablesOfJesus Afterward have someone read the discussion questions in the “Hear God’s Story” section and start the conversation.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Hear God’s Story

Read the passage together, and discuss the following questions. Why does Scripture say Jesus told this parable? Who was His target audience?

How would the audience have viewed each of the characters in Jesus’ parable before hearing it? How did that color the effect Jesus was going for?

Compare all the details given about the two men and their prayers — their posture, the way they approached God, their view of God and of themselves, and so on. What do you notice from each example?

Alfred Plummer says in his commentary on the Gospel of Luke that the Pharisee “glances at God, but contemplates himself.” What is Jesus saying about how we are saved? About how we should view our sin? About how we should come to God in prayer?

WelcomeLet’s worship God together!

The mission of Northland, A Church Distributed is to respond to God for the benefit of others. Our vision is to see people coming to Christ and to be transformed together as we link locally and globally to worship and serve everywhere, every day. Join us!

Connect & GrowOur website has hundreds of archived worship services, stories about the great work God is doing and ways for YOU to be the church everywhere, every day. NorthlandChurch.net

For more information or to get involved as a volunteer, email Hello@NorthlandChurch.net or call 407-949-4000.We are located at 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood, FL 32750.

DIG

GIN

G D

EEPE

R Luke 18:9-14

The Pharisee and the Tax CollectorFind others to do this study with you — friends, family members or coworkers — or join an existing group. You will understand more of God and better arrange your life around God’s Word as you pursue Him with others.

This week we are going to focus on the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector.

Share Your StoryHow and when did you learn to pray? Was it as a child, reciting memorized prayers, or as an older believer, talking to God in a more personal way?

JULY

29

-31,

20

17

The Parables of JesusThe Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Find Your Story in God’s Story

This parable is an emphatic repudiation of any suggestion that a man may be saved by acquiring merit. What the Pharisee said about himself was true. His trouble was not that he was not far enough along the road, but that he was on the wrong road altogether.

The tax collector was clearly under great conviction of sin. Lifting up the eyes to heaven when praying was normal, but his sense of unworthiness prevented him from doing this. He kept beating his breast, a sign of sorrow. … And he calls himself not “a” sinner but “the” sinner. He, too, put himself in a class of his own, but how differently from the Pharisee!

— Tyndale, “The Gospel According to St. Luke”

What error do you see in the Pharisee’s prayer? In his faith?

Clearly the tax collector is a positive example in this parable. What can we apply from him and his prayer?

How do you tend to approach God, to prove your own righteousness or to acknowledge your own sin?

As a group, how could you use the following words of Jeremiah as your application of this study? Spend some time boasting about God.

“...but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

— Jeremiah 9:24 (NASB)

Looking for Daily Devotionals?

Visit NorthlandChurch.net/ReadTheBible or download the Northland app to access daily devotionals and more.

10 of 10

READ LUKE 18:9-14

NorthlandChurch.net/ParablesOfJesus Afterward have someone read the discussion questions in the “Hear God’s Story” section and start the conversation.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Hear God’s Story

Read the passage together, and discuss the following questions. Why does Scripture say Jesus told this parable? Who was His target audience?

How would the audience have viewed each of the characters in Jesus’ parable before hearing it? How did that color the effect Jesus was going for?

Compare all the details given about the two men and their prayers — their posture, the way they approached God, their view of God and of themselves, and so on. What do you notice from each example?

Alfred Plummer says in his commentary on the Gospel of Luke that the Pharisee “glances at God, but contemplates himself.” What is Jesus saying about how we are saved? About how we should view our sin? About how we should come to God in prayer?

WelcomeLet’s worship God together!

The mission of Northland, A Church Distributed is to respond to God for the benefit of others. Our vision is to see people coming to Christ and to be transformed together as we link locally and globally to worship and serve everywhere, every day. Join us!

Connect & GrowOur website has hundreds of archived worship services, stories about the great work God is doing and ways for YOU to be the church everywhere, every day. NorthlandChurch.net

For more information or to get involved as a volunteer, email Hello@NorthlandChurch.net or call 407-949-4000.We are located at 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood, FL 32750.

DIG

GIN

G D

EEPE

R Luke 18:9-14

The Pharisee and the Tax CollectorFind others to do this study with you — friends, family members or coworkers — or join an existing group. You will understand more of God and better arrange your life around God’s Word as you pursue Him with others.

This week we are going to focus on the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector.

Share Your StoryHow and when did you learn to pray? Was it as a child, reciting memorized prayers, or as an older believer, talking to God in a more personal way?

JULY

29

-31,

20

17

The Parables of JesusThe Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Find Your Story in God’s Story

This parable is an emphatic repudiation of any suggestion that a man may be saved by acquiring merit. What the Pharisee said about himself was true. His trouble was not that he was not far enough along the road, but that he was on the wrong road altogether.

The tax collector was clearly under great conviction of sin. Lifting up the eyes to heaven when praying was normal, but his sense of unworthiness prevented him from doing this. He kept beating his breast, a sign of sorrow. … And he calls himself not “a” sinner but “the” sinner. He, too, put himself in a class of his own, but how differently from the Pharisee!

— Tyndale, “The Gospel According to St. Luke”

What error do you see in the Pharisee’s prayer? In his faith?

Clearly the tax collector is a positive example in this parable. What can we apply from him and his prayer?

How do you tend to approach God, to prove your own righteousness or to acknowledge your own sin?

As a group, how could you use the following words of Jeremiah as your application of this study? Spend some time boasting about God.

“...but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

— Jeremiah 9:24 (NASB)

Looking for Daily Devotionals?

Visit NorthlandChurch.net/ReadTheBible or download the Northland app to access daily devotionals and more.

10 of 10

READ LUKE 18:9-14

NorthlandChurch.net/ParablesOfJesus Afterward have someone read the discussion questions in the “Hear God’s Story” section and start the conversation.

WATCH THE VIDEO

Hear God’s Story

Read the passage together, and discuss the following questions. Why does Scripture say Jesus told this parable? Who was His target audience?

How would the audience have viewed each of the characters in Jesus’ parable before hearing it? How did that color the effect Jesus was going for?

Compare all the details given about the two men and their prayers — their posture, the way they approached God, their view of God and of themselves, and so on. What do you notice from each example?

Alfred Plummer says in his commentary on the Gospel of Luke that the Pharisee “glances at God, but contemplates himself.” What is Jesus saying about how we are saved? About how we should view our sin? About how we should come to God in prayer?