Lutheran Church of the Cross
Family of God: The Parents
Highlights from our weekend message and a daily reading plan for the coming week.
Locations & Times
Lutheran Church of the Cross
1701 8th St SW, Altoona, IA 50009, USA
Saturday 5:30 PM
Sunday 8:30 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM
Family of God
Awkward. Essential.
Whether you long to feel included, don’t know how you fit, or doubt you have the time, look with fresh eyes on God’s plan for His Family. Discover a community of support, wisdom, and friendship so you can tackle life’s battles with God’s power and perspective.
Awkward. Essential.
Whether you long to feel included, don’t know how you fit, or doubt you have the time, look with fresh eyes on God’s plan for His Family. Discover a community of support, wisdom, and friendship so you can tackle life’s battles with God’s power and perspective.
Session 4
The Parents
1. Describe your parents during your growing-up years.
2. Read 1 Corinthians 4:14-17, written by the Apostle Paul. The word “guardian” (in the NIV Bible) is pedagogos in the original Greek. It refers to a tutor for children who was hired by a family to live with them and tutor the children in reading, writing, math, and logic. When a child turned twelve, the child was handed from the pedagogos to the parent to learn how to do what they did. The child would walk beside his/her parent wherever he/she went, observing and learning through imitation how to be a man or woman. Paul was saying you can get information about God from lots of different people, but you really need a spiritual parent so you can observe and imitate the way of Christ in his/her life.
3. Who has been a spiritual parent in your life? What specifically have you learned from observing their way of life in Christ?
4. In verse 16, Paul encourages the church in Corinth to imitate him. How would you feel about telling someone to imitate your relationship with Jesus? What kind of Christian would someone become by watching you? How would they love, pray, worship, give, forgive, serve, etc.?
5. Before we think Paul was the perfect person to imitate and we think we could never invite someone to imitate us, what does Paul say about himself in 1 Timothy 1:15. How does this encourage you that God can even use someone like you?
6. Who can be a spiritual parent for you? Who can you be a spiritual parent for?
7. What is one step God is calling you to take to be a better example to imitate?
8. Pray together.
The Parents
1. Describe your parents during your growing-up years.
2. Read 1 Corinthians 4:14-17, written by the Apostle Paul. The word “guardian” (in the NIV Bible) is pedagogos in the original Greek. It refers to a tutor for children who was hired by a family to live with them and tutor the children in reading, writing, math, and logic. When a child turned twelve, the child was handed from the pedagogos to the parent to learn how to do what they did. The child would walk beside his/her parent wherever he/she went, observing and learning through imitation how to be a man or woman. Paul was saying you can get information about God from lots of different people, but you really need a spiritual parent so you can observe and imitate the way of Christ in his/her life.
3. Who has been a spiritual parent in your life? What specifically have you learned from observing their way of life in Christ?
4. In verse 16, Paul encourages the church in Corinth to imitate him. How would you feel about telling someone to imitate your relationship with Jesus? What kind of Christian would someone become by watching you? How would they love, pray, worship, give, forgive, serve, etc.?
5. Before we think Paul was the perfect person to imitate and we think we could never invite someone to imitate us, what does Paul say about himself in 1 Timothy 1:15. How does this encourage you that God can even use someone like you?
6. Who can be a spiritual parent for you? Who can you be a spiritual parent for?
7. What is one step God is calling you to take to be a better example to imitate?
8. Pray together.
