December 13, 2025
A video introduction using illustrations, personal stories, metaphors, or active learning examples to begin the discussion.
After the video, prompts are supplied for thinking and sharing with others personal perception and experience. This opening activity prompts participants to think about and relate to the topic, and to share with others.
Do you know what Rule #645 is in the CMR (the Criminal Resource Manager)? It’s the section of our legal system that deals with entrapment. You may have heard the word before. The idea is simple: a government agent cannot prosecute someone for a crime the agent helped create. Police cannot plant the idea, lure a person into breaking the law, and then arrest them for it. If the impulse comes from the officer rather than the citizen, it is entrapment.
The term is fitting, because nature is full of traps. The Venus flytrap snaps shut the moment a tiny hair is touched. Trapdoor spiders wait beneath a perfectly camouflaged lid and strike the moment they feel the faintest tremor. Anglerfish dangle a glowing lure in the deep dark, drawing smaller fish straight toward their own undoing.
We live in a world with plenty of bait and ambush. Which of the three is the most clearly rule 645 in the CMR?
As you explore the story of the woman caught in adultery, you will see entrapment but look beyond as how Jesus liberates this woman from a technicality, but full weight of grace is bestowed on her. What will she say?
The Bible discussion begins with a careful reading of the whole passage, either from your own Bibles, or from the provided images below.
Then participants are to ask:
What do you think is the most disturbing part of this story? And what is the most powerful? This woman has been dragged into a moment of pure entrapment, used as bait to trap Jesus. The Son of God refuses to let this become a public execution of shame. The leaders arrive with stones in their hands and a trap in their hearts, but Jesus bends down and writes in the dust, echoing the God who once wrote the law with his finger. Hebrew scribes never wrote silently. They spoke or murmured the words they copied. Imagine Jesus writing and softly speaking the very law they claimed to defend. The text does not say what he wrote, but it is not hard to picture Jesus recalling the whole law, including the part that required the man to face judgment too. Whatever he wrote, it scattered the accusers until only Jesus, and the woman remained.
The real freedom begins when Jesus invites her to speak. Brain research tells us that truth spoken aloud sinks deeper than truth merely thought, and her answer becomes her declaration of a new reality. “No one, sir.” Read Revelation 12:10-11 and Romans 8:35-39. Both promises to come alive in her spoken freedom. How important is it to speak out loud and claim your freedom for yourself?
A parting video clip with a personal invitation to apply the message to “knowing Christ” and “living in Christ” in the coming week.