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What is the reason for children to be obedient to their
parents?
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How can adult children honor their parents and maintain
appropriate boundaries? What can parents of adult children
do to help make honoring them easier?
4. Read Hebrews 12:5-11
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How are love and discipline tied together? Moreover, how
can discipline bring delight to both parent and child involved?
Sunday, May 24th, 2015
Proverbs 29:17 ESV Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will
give delight to your heart.
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How does your relationship with your Heavenly Father inspire
your parenting strategy? Is the Gospel being reflected in your
interactions with your children?
Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake
not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and
pendants for your neck.
The Parent-Child Connection
RESPOND
1. How can we, as a community, come alongside and support family
I. God has created a mutually ____________________
____________________.
members who are sole believers in their families - children,
teenagers, young adults, wives, husbands, senior adults, single
moms or dads?
2. What changes can you make this week to better reflect the
Gospel within your family as a child and/or parent?
II. Parents have the responsibility to create __________________.
Proverbs 19:18 ESV Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your
heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 19:18 NLT Discipline your children while there is hope.
Otherwise you will ruin their lives.
Your Kids Are Rotten
Discussion Questions
DISCOVER
III. Children have the responsibility to ___________________
___________________.
1. What statement or experience stood out to you from worship
this morning?
Proverbs 4:1 ESV Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive,
that you may gain insight.
2. Read Proverbs 1:8-9, 19:18 and 29:17
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How were boundaries established for you as a child? How
have you set them for your family? Have you avoided setting
Proverbs 4:7 ESV The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and
whatever you get, get insight.
boundaries? If so, why?
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What is the difference in parenting in a way that leads to
obedience by domination versus in a way that teaches
obedience through honorably following?
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How does creating a placating environment in our home with
very little discipline ultimately exasperate children? How
does and environment of domination exasperate children?
How could out-sourcing the spiritual instruction of our
children also exasperate our children?
This Week’s Big Idea:
Your kids are rotten! They inherited a sin nature from you and it
has corrupted their hearts. But our heavenly Father has created
the parent-child connection to help remedy this problem. In this
message, we will learn the nature, value and the implementation
of that vital connection from the book of Proverbs.
3. Read Deuteronomy 6:1-9 and Ephesians 6:1-4
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What is the difference between the world’s understanding of
discipline and the biblical purpose of discipline? How are the
goals different? How are the outcomes different?