The One We Need

If you’re a parent, you know what it’s like to feel the weight of responsibility to care for and love your children.  In our efforts to love them, bless them and give them a hope for the future, we often try to be for them what only Jesus is, the perfect parent.  Whether we have children or not, Jesus uses children as an illustration of the kind of people that He calls to His Kingdom and wants to come to Him; those who are childlike in their trust and dependence on Him. As the disciples learned, there is a lot we can learn from children. Come join us this Sunday to see why Jesus wants us to come to Him, with our children.

Discussion Questions

1. As parents, how do we often try to bear the weight of being to our children what only Jesus is?

2. How does this passage help you think differently about children? About yourself?

3. What is the greatest good we can do for our children (and ourselves), and what is greatest harm we can do to our children (and ourselves)? Why?

4. Can you identify with failing to give grace to others as freely as you’ve received it? Why is this often so difficult for us?

5. What or Who is your ultimate hope?  How can you tell?

6. What things have become more urgent in your life (and/or you children’s lives) than coming to Jesus?

7. If the answers to the prayers you prayed for your children were all answered ”Yes!”, what impact would it make on their lives or the lives of others? Would it have an eternal impact?

8. Why do we often find it easier to reject grace and choose achievement?