Church In A Brewery
Topic: Gathering sticks on the Sabbath
- What’s your initial reaction to the stoning of the man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath in Numbers 15?
- Why do you think God might have given the people such a strict punishment for not working on the Sabbath?
- Think about God’s mission to ultimately bring us into His family. How does that idea affect your understanding of the sticks incident?
- What unresolved questions do you have about this story?
Scripture references:
Exodus 31:14
Numbers 15: 32-36