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WELCOME ICEBREAKER What is a warm memory of your mom when you were growing up? (Leaders be sensitive if some in the group had a difficult childhood and want to pass.) WORSHIP Leaders remember to plan ahead for this important aspect of the meeting. WORD Read Luke 15:11-32 - Discuss how you see unconditional love in this story
- Do you think the father was praying for his sons? Why or why not?
- When should you let a child go their own way even if you know it will probably cause them grief?
- What do you think made the son come home?
- he got homesick
- he was hungry and broke
- he felt sorry for his father
- he felt guilty for what he had done
- other
- How does the father receive his son? Why?
- How did this father value his family?
- If you were to have a party for the most positive thing about the relationship you have with your parents, what would you celebrate?
- Which of the father's qualities do you like most?
- his willingness to let his son make mistakes
- his patience in waiting for change
- his capacity to forgive
- his understanding in dealing with both of his children
- his ability to have fun
- Consider verse 31. What has God given you that you have not taken?
WORK Take time to pray for household salvation and the needs of family relationships to be restored. Remember to fill the empty chair and be inviting new people out from church and the neighborhood. Thanks for sending in your reports!! We stand in faith believing for multiplication with 50 groups by the end of the year. Has this lesson helped you? Please let us know! Email home group testimonies with this form! Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments. 1 John 5:1-2
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