Luke 3:1-20

2nd and 3rd Sundays in Advent, year C.

Questions

1) What are your initial reactions to the text?

2) John speaks from the wilderness

- What are your experiences of wilderness?

- When have experienced the prophetic voice? Either in yourself or in others?

3) What does it mean for flesh to be saved? Why is the physical body important?

4) What does Luke mean by evoking Isaiah’s “All Flesh will see the salvation of God”?

5) What does it mean to be baptism with the Holy Spirit and Fire?

6) How do we reconcile conversion and grace? Where is the connection between forgiveness and ceasing to do evil?