(This guide is designed to give helpful hints in preparing & leading your group in discussion)
OUR FATHER’S LOVE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11th and 18th September at Mt Carmel College, Varroville.
OWNERSHIP DINNER: Saturday 17th September, tickets available Sunday and through Impact Group Leaders
ORAN PARK PARISH MISSION: 13-16th September: Please Pray for the Parish
COMMUNITY INTENTIONS: Please pray for the intentions of all our Communities
WARM UP QUESTIONS:
1. In your lifetime, who has done the best job of caring for you? How has that impacted your life?
SCRIPTURE STUDY: Luke 12:22-34
Study the verse for thirty minutes and write down everything you can.
- What do I see?
- What does it mean? (spiritual question)
- What do I do need to do about it? (application)
Share some of your reflections with your group.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What is one characteristic of your earthly father that greatly influenced your understanding about what God our heavenly Father is/isn’t like?
2. When you think of God’s love, what do you think of? Describe a time when you personally experienced God’s love?
3. Philippe talked about receiving God’s love by just being alone with God, how do you respond to those words? Can you relate? Do you walk with God, intimately and regularly? Or are your experiences with God usually mediated by something or someone (books, sermons, pastor’s voice, fellowship, etc.)?
4. How does it change the way we live to know that God loves us deeply and calls us ‘son’ and ‘daughter’?
5. Looking back at your notes from this week’s Message, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged or confused you?