1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Do you sometimes struggle with feeling like children are nuisances, inconveniences, or interruptions? How do Jesus’ actions challenge your thinking?
3. How does Jesus demonstrate the value of children? How can you demonstrate value for children in your life?
4. Why are children so valuable and special? In what ways have children been a blessing to you?
5. If children were to follow your example, what character and behavior would they be learning and imitating (1 Corinthians 11:1)?
6. How might God want to use you to influence the children of Grace? Besides joining the children’s teaching ministry, what is one new way you can love and serve the children of Grace?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. What do you think are some of the causes for “deconstructing” the faith? Why so some people leave the church when they grow up?
3. What is the sand on which many people today build their lives? Why is the broader road attractive to so many people (Matthew 7:13)?
4. What are some practical ways to help children know the Bible as a blueprint to understand God’s design for them? How can we help children to build their foundation, without doing it for them?
5. If you could redo childhood, what changes would you make for a better foundation? What does that show about the long-term consequences of our decisions?  How does that burden you for children?
6. What “storms” have you faced in your life that have tested your foundation (Matthew 7:25, 27)? How has God’s Word prepared you to face such storms?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Did your parents disciple you as a child? Whether they did or not, what were some ideas they engrained in you, and what methods made them stick?
3. What concerns do you have about children wrestling with their faith? What benefits might there be?
4. What time, place, and approach works best for you to study God’s Word, either by yourself or with your family?
5. In a typical day, what opportunities are there to reflect on truth and discuss it with your family or others? What are some fun ways to discuss God’s truths without everything being a Bible study?
6. What questions could you ask children to help them think, and learn how they think? How can asking them questions be more beneficial than simply instructing them all the time?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. What are some of the challenges of discipline, whether self-discipline, parental discipline, or church discipline?
3. What is the balance between letting love cover a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8), and confronting and correcting sin?
4. When children disobey, do you ever struggle with taking it personally? What can you do to overcome that struggle?
5. How do you lovingly, patiently instruct and guide a rebellious child? How can you establish a healthy authority?
6. True and lasting change must take place in the heart. How does this impact the approach to discipline and correction?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Did you know someone outside your family that you looked up to as a child? What gave them influence in your life?  What impact did they have?
3. How does sharing ourselves (1 Thessalonians 2:8) open us to a vulnerability that enables us to demonstrate faith and grow together with others?
4. As a believer in Jesus, you are approved by God and entrusted with the gospel (1 Thessalonians 2:4). What has God taught you that you could pass on to younger people?
5. How can you grow in affection and care for the children of Grace? How would God have you to love, connect with, and invest in the children?
6. What are some interests you have in common with children that you can enjoy with them? How can you use those common interests to invest in and disciple children?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. What can we learn from Solomon about training our children in life skill as our disciples or apprentices?
3. How do we teach children a healthy fear of the Lord (Proverbs 2:5)? What is a healthy fear of the Lord?
4. What does the imagery of paths in Proverbs illustrate for the importance of the decisions we make?
5. How do the warnings of Proverbs 2 portray the weighty need of warning the young and inexperienced (Colossians 1:28)?
6. How is biblical understanding deeper than knowledge (Proverbs 2:5, 9)? Why is it so important for choosing the paths of life?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Why does the world have such strong influence in our lives? How do we overcome that influence and break the world’s patterns?
3. How do you overcome desires for popularity and fitting in? How do you help a child make a godly decision even when “everyone else is doing it”?
4. What are some practical ways you can train your mind? How can you help someone else to train their mind as well?
5. How does it change your perspective to realize the mundane duties of the day should still be offered to God in worship? How can you remember that this week?
6. How do we help children desire God’s will in their lives and discern what His will is for them?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Have you ever responded to a child foolishly? What heart struggle were you facing?  How do you guard against folly in your response?
3. How do we get back up when we fail as Christians and as parents?
4. How do we teach our children to keep going when they fail? How can we show them grace when we are weary of their sin?
5. Why is it that we can hate sin so much, and yet be enticed and defeated by it? How does the beautiful truth of Romans 8:1 set you free to live for God with hope?
6. What is wrong with a change in behavior, without a change in heart? How can we achieve true heart change, rather than merely trying to modify the behavior?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How can we model confession and repentance for children and others around us (Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:7-9)?
3. What are some ways we might sometimes provoke children (Ephesians 6:4)? Where do you need repentance and correction in your relationships with children?
4. What makes relationships the hardest? How can we learn to grow together through conflict, rather than apart?
5. What is your first reaction when you’re brought face-to-face with your sin – either by Spirit conviction or someone’s confrontation? Why is it painful to admit and confess sin?
6. How has Christian hypocrisy affected you? Why might Christian hypocrisy be so damaging for children?  How can you grow in transparency?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. We are stewards of the children God entrusts to us as parents and as a church. How can we be faithful with the role and relationships God has given us with them?
3. What do you want most for your children? What are your training objectives for them?
4. Children are adults-in-training, and the future of our world and our church. How can we prepare them for life on their own?  How can we prepare them to be leaders and influencers?
5. Is it wrong to “indoctrinate” children? How do we teach children, but help them own their faith for themselves?
6. What fears do you have about sending your children out as adults? How are you entrusting those fears to God?