Relationships Worth Improving: Session #3

Good Questions: These lesson Have Groups Talking!

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Ephesians 6.1 - 4; 1 Timothy 5.1 - 8 ⁽¹⁾

ACCOUNTABILITY

• •What three fellowships do we have planned in the next three months? Who wants to invite every member? Who wants to invite every prospect? Who wants to plan the fellowship? Who wants to be my assistant/ substitute teacher?

OPEN

• •Let's each share our name and how many kids you and how many would you like to have. ⁽²⁾

DIG

1. As we read this passage, imagine you are reading in your daily quiet time. What verse(s) speak to you personally?
2. What are the benefits to kids of obeying their parents?
3. How do we help our kids to see the truth of Ephesians 6.1?
4. What does honor mean?
5. This command has a promise. What is the promise?
6. Is it true of all obedience? Does it always result in it going well for us? Is it always in our best interest to live the Christian life? ⁽³⁾
7. What does it mean to exasperate your children?
8. What are seven ways you could exasperate your children?
9. What is one way you have exasperated your children?
10. What does it cost us to exasperate our children?
11. Why do we sometimes exasperate our children if it just makes life worse for us?
12. Why isn't there a command for children not to exasperate their parents? ⁽⁴⁾
13. The verse speaks of bringing children up in the training and instruction of the Lord. What are some habits that can make this a reality?
14. What was the situation that created this teaching for widows?
15. How do we apply this to our generation?
16. Look at verse 6. What does it mean to live for pleasure?
17. What does it mean to be dead even while she lives?
18. Someone read verse 8 out loud.
19. What does it mean "provide for"? What are some ways we provide for our relatives?
20. Apparently, the situation was somewhere providing for others outside their family before the temptation to provide for their family. Why the temptation to do this?
21. Why would a man, for instance, unclog the drain for his neighbor before he cares for the needs of his own wife?
22. What is the biggest burden you have these days? How can we pray for one another this week?




1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. [2] "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- [3] "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."

[4] Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephes. 6:1-4 (NIV)





[5:1] Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, [2] older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

[3] Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. [4] But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God. [5] The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. [6] But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives. [7] Give the people these instructions, too, so that no one may be open to blame. [8] If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim. 5:1-8 (NIV)

2. If it is an older group, you might ask about grandkids.

3. In the long run.

4. That is a good question! That is what I want to know.