Matthew 5:17-48

6th and 7th Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A.

Questions

1) What are your initial thoughts, emotions, ideas and questions about the text?

2) What are your experiences of laws, and coming up against laws? Do you see them as oppressive or protective?

3) What are the limitations of laws?

4) Looking at the specific examples which Jesus uses, how do you feel? Do you agree with Jesus?

5) Jesus makes human reconciliation a necessary precursor to religious practice. How might we take this teaching more seriously in our personal lives, and in our collective worship?