01/10/2023

OUR Father

Home Group Study Notes:   1 October 2023 

 

Theme: “Our Father”  

This format is a guide to you for your small group meeting. Feel free to change and adapt it according to the needs of your group. The objective is for you to build authentic relationships within the group, relationships that enable you to learn to love others who are different to you, and to discover as a reality the treasure of relationships built on the foundation of a relationship with Jesus, his life, and his teaching. 

Meeting and Greeting: 

Begin with general conversation and sharing about how the past week has gone.  

Worship and Prayer 

Click on the link below on your smartphone, Smart TV, or computer, to select songs to sing; and then spend a few minutes in song and prayer.  

PLETT METHODIST YOU TUBE CHANNEL SONG’S PLAYLIST:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbsAkwbV_S1vXdZVPkZ0_tQW5n9RqeZX0 

And if you need to check on the Message for the week again, then click on: 

PLETT METHODIST YOU TUBE CHANNEL (MESSAGE): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1X4YYw1KLpda1yGnqKgfw/videos 

This time of worship and prayer will encourage you to move your thoughts from daily worries and pressures to our time of Bible study and prayer. 

You do not have to answer all the questions below.  

 

READINGSi:   

Isaiah 40:18-31 

Luke 6:35-36 

Luke 11:1-12 

Luke 15:11-32 

Romans 8:14-17 

 

Discussion and Sharing  

  1. Is God the Father of all peoples or only of Christians?  
  2. How may our personal experiences of fathers and authority figures affect our prayer life?  
  3. Try to identify the thoughts and emotions of the prodigal and his father.  
  4. How can we know more of what God is like?  
  5. Why should we refer to heaven in our prayers?  
  6. Why should we think of heaven in terms of an elevation rather than a location?  
  7. Why did Jesus begin the prayer, “Our Father in heaven”? 
  8. How can we reconcile God’s greatness with our smallness?  
  9. Why may people struggle in prayer?  

 

Seeing Jesus in the Scriptures 

When we see Jesus in the Scriptures healing the sick, comforting the broken hearted and touching the outcasts, we see the heart of the Father in all he does, for Jesus only did the will of the Father (John 5:19; 6:38; 14:10). Take time to allow the character, words and works of Christ form within you a true perception of God as a loving Father. Jesus himself often prayed to the Father (e.g. Matt. 11:25; 26:42; John 17:1,5,11,21,24-25) and so emphasized the real nature of the relationship on which authentic prayer is based.  

 

Prayer: Share prayer requests and then pray together.  

 

Benediction Prayer:  And now may the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all, now, and forever more. Amen 

Have a wonderful week. God bless.  

Tim.  

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