Message Discussion Questions

For the Week of November 17th, 2024

"Family Wound"

1.) What is one of your best memories as a family growing up? (1 min. max)

2.) What is one of your most difficult memories of your family growing up?

3.) If you had a painful family life, what were the ways you coped with that?

4.) How has any family wound impacted you as an adult?

5.) Read Luke 15:11-24

a. Why was the son hesitant to come home?

b. The son convinced himself he wasn’t worthy of his father’s love and acceptance. In what ways do you find yourself doing the same thing?

c. What does vs. 20 reveal about the heart of God?

d. Why do you think the father completely ignores his son’s statement in vs. 21?

e. What was the story meant to reveal about the heart of God towards us?

6.) Do you view God as the father represented in this story? Why or why not?

7.) What would God need to say to you to help you heal from your family wound?

8.) Read Isaiah 49:15-16. What does this verse mean to you? Can you receive Him as the best father you could ever hope for?