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Amos 6-7
1) Together as a Large Group (10-12 mins.)
a. In your experience of leading others, what are some of the “perils”
or challenges of leadership?
b. As Christians, what responsibilities accompany leadership?
Read Amos 6 [11.26-13.12] Individual Study (5-7 mins)
2) Small Group study (20 mins) What position in the Israelite culture do
the people described here have? What sort of lifestyles do they lead?
How have these leaders used their influence and power?
3) Contrast what God is concerned with, from this section of Amos and other
statements in the book, and the concerns of Israel’s leaders.
4) What are the fruits of their complacency? What further understanding do
we receive regarding what the Day of the Lord will be like for Israel’s
leaders?
5) What kind of influence has God given you—in your chapter, church,
community, world?
a. What types of gifts has He given you; spiritually, economically, and
educationally?
b. How has your time in Detroit changed your appreciation of God’s
gifting to you?
6) Together as Group (6-8 mins.)What can we learn from chapter 6 about the
responsibilities of a leaders and those who have gifts?
a. Why are leaders particularly tempted with pride (verses 8, 13 [12.20-
21, 13.5-8])? How does pride infect you and other leaders in your
Christian fellowship?
b. What ways can you use your positions of influence on campus to
please God? Following graduation?
Read Amos 7 [13.13-14.28](5-7 mins.)
7) Small Group study (30 mins.) How does Amos’ view of Israel’s strength
compare to how Israel views herself as stated in the previous section?
8) Why does Amos pray in this fashion before God?
a. What truths regarding God’s character does Amos have in mind as he
prays?
b. Why does Amos refer so much to God’s sovereignty in this section
[the term Lord God in the RSV in the Hebrew is Sovereign Lord]?
9) What is a plumb line? What is it used for? What shape is Israel’s
building in?
10) In what ways, as a result of studying Amos, have you become convinced
that God wants to tear down the tottering church, in order to build one
that is ‘true to plumb’?
a. What is learned from Amos regarding the role prayer should play in
our tackling evil in the Christian Church?
11) How does Amaziah react to Amos’ message (verses 10-13)? Why does he
react this way? What vested interest does he have to protect?
a. How has the church reacted to Amos like calls to repentance in your
experience?
b. What vested interest does the Church have to ignore Amos’ challenges
(calls to holiness, justice, true worship, godly use of resources,
etc.)?
12) How does Amaziah view God’s word?
a. How are we tempted to handle God’s Word when facing convicting
challenges from it?
b. What is God’s response when his word is spurned (verses 16-17)?
13) Together as a group (5 mins.) What impressed you from these two
chapters?
a. What can we learn from Amos about how to respond when our challenges
towards corporate sin is resisted?
b. Why was he able to act so fearlessly? How did the origin of His
message effect his preaching?
14) Small Groups (10 mins.)In what ways do you sense God calling you to
follow Amos’ example of courageously resisting the trend of both God’s
people & Christian leaders to forget who the Lord truly is and what He
requires of His leaders?
a. Pray for your personal leadership and leaders in your chapter,
including staff.
b. Pray that humility would characterize their leadership.
c. Pray for a growing concern for justice to exist within your
chapter’s life.
d. Pray that they would receive what God would have you bring back to
campus or church after the project.———————————-
Songs Together (10 mins)
1. Ascribe Greatness to Our God
2. Father We Thank Thee
3. Why Should I Fear the Darkest Hour
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