Small Group Resources
Small Group Discussion Questions
May 31 - June 6
Sermon Series: Grow Up
Week 5: Parent
Ice Breaker if Needed
Are you more “indoorsy” or “outdoorsy”? Why?
Discussion Questions
1. Think back on this series about Growing Up in our faith. Which stage resonates with where you are spiritually? Honestly assess if you are actively hungering to grow up. What is God showing you about your need for a Savior? What have you learned about faith? Who is leading you: Spirit or self? What is your purpose in this life? Who are you discipling and are they making disciples?
2. Read Hebrews 5:11-14. When is “milk” appropriate to consume, spiritually? Why should believers be eager to leave milk behind? What is “solid food”? What do you notice about who solid food is for and what solid food does for the mature? How do you know if what you consume, as a Christian, is milk or “meat”?
3. Continue by reading Hebrews 6:1-3. What are “elementary teachings” (NIV)? What happens when a believer becomes the teacher? What is signalled when we don’t have to constantly return to the basics and reach for meatier sustenance?
4. What does a spiritual parent teach a spiritual infant? How does a new believer’s “infancy” impact what and how you teach? Why is a mature Christian’s daily example of navigating life the greatest teacher and indicator of how to follow God? If you consider yourself a mature/parentlike Christian, take a few moments to pray about what your actions, words, and heart signal to new and growing believers. The good news is you do not lean on your own efforts and understanding: God leads you! How might you better respond to His leading?
5. Read 1 John 3:1. Who are God’s children? What do you want for God’s children? What do you feel for God’s children? Who helps you love well? Read Mark 12:29-31. When you love God with everything in your being, how will you love others? What does love hope for?
6. Read Hebrews 6:7 and John 16:33. How do hard times refine and mature us? What is produced when we have trouble and Jesus’ promise to overcome becomes our lived experience? How do troubling times help us to minister to and disciple others? How have you seen it in your own life?