Gideon (Discussion Questions)

Categories: Gideon, Judges, Obedience

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Who is Gideon? (a judge who had a very close relationship with God – so close that he tested God to make sure God was with him.)
Who appears to Gideon? (Judges 6:11-13)
What does the angel ask Gideon to do? (Judges 6:25-28)
What was wrong with the altar Gideon's father built?
Which commandments were the people breaking by having an altar to Baal?
What kinds of things do people bow down to today?
How did Gideon's father react? (Judges 6:29-32)
What kind of a person was Gideon?
What did God want Gideon to do after he broke down Baal's altar? (Judges 6:16,17, 34-35)
How did Gideon test God? (Judges 6:36-40)
Imagine trying to thresh wheat so no one sees what you're doing. How difficult is that?
The angel of the Lord appears before Gideon and asks him to do what?
What personal altars do we need to knock down?
When the angel appeared to Gideon, was it for the sole purpose of destroying Gideon's father's altar to Baal or for something else?
What else did God want Gideon to do?
Why do you think God would have selected someone like Gideon? After all, he was from the weakest of the twelve tribes, he doubted his ability, and he tested God.
How did Gideon test God? (Judges 6:37-40)
What is fleece?
How many times did he test God?
After God passed the test, what did Gideon do?
Do we ever test God? or Is it a good practice to test God?
Who was Gideon to defeat? (Judges 6:16)
Gideon had to select an army. How many did he recruit? (32,000 Judges 7:3)
Why did God want a smaller army? (Judges 7:2)
What did Gideon do to reduce the size of his army? (Judges 7:3)
How many left because they were afraid? (22,000)
What did Gideon have to do to reduce the size of the 10,000? (Judges 7:5-6)
Describe why those who didn't drink from their hands would be a bad risk militarily?
What were God's instructions to this army?
What have you learned about God?
What have you learned about listening to God?