Questions:
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging?
2. Read Ephesians 6:1-4. What is a child’s obligation to their parents? Is this obligation conditional? Why/why not?
3. Who is able to follow this instruction? Why does this matter?
4. To whom does the term child refer in this passage? Why is teaching young people the Lord’s instructions for them crucial? Are boundaries good things? Why/why not?
5. What are you doing to grow as a student of God’s Word intentionally? What does the word honor mean? Why is this command given as “in the Lord?”
6. Why should we be seeking fundamental inward transformation instead of mere outward compliance? What is the right way to nurture this development?
7. Why does Paul tell children they are supposed to obey their parents? What does this term mean?
8. What are some ways we can unwittingly provoke our children? What is the apostle’s positive instruction found in verse 4? What does it mean?
9. Why do we invest our time and talent in raising children following this passage?
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging?
2. Read Ephesians 6:1-4. What is a child’s obligation to their parents? Is this obligation conditional? Why/why not?
3. Who is able to follow this instruction? Why does this matter?
4. To whom does the term child refer in this passage? Why is teaching young people the Lord’s instructions for them crucial? Are boundaries good things? Why/why not?
5. What are you doing to grow as a student of God’s Word intentionally? What does the word honor mean? Why is this command given as “in the Lord?”
6. Why should we be seeking fundamental inward transformation instead of mere outward compliance? What is the right way to nurture this development?
7. Why does Paul tell children they are supposed to obey their parents? What does this term mean?
8. What are some ways we can unwittingly provoke our children? What is the apostle’s positive instruction found in verse 4? What does it mean?
9. Why do we invest our time and talent in raising children following this passage?
Date: March 16, 2025
Text: Ephesians 6:5-9
Questions:
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging?
2. Read Ephesians 6:5-9. What percentage of the Roman empire was enslaved? What are some of the different ways individuals found themselves in this situation? Why does this matter to us?
3. What foundational ethic does this passage teach for a follower of Jeus Christ? What is the only valid reason for disobeying our employer?
4. How are we to treat those whom the Lord has given a position of power over us? Why?
5. What three characteristics explain how we are supposed to live out God’s command given in verse 5? How does our manner of work display itself?
6. Do we only work hard when we know we’re being watched? Why/why not? How do we work with genuineness, reliability, and dedication as Paul suggests?
7. When we comprehend what it cost Jesus to save us, what task is too difficult, too demeaning, or too dull for us to not to do it to the best of our ability? What is our motive for this behavior?
8. Will anything God commands us to do in His Word, that is done in His name and for His glory pass His notice? Go unapproved? Why?
9. How should supervisors treat the people under their command? Why does Paul give the negative command found in verse 9? What is the risk if we don’t obey it?
1. What particularly stood out to you from this sermon? Was anything significantly reassuring or challenging?
2. Read Ephesians 6:5-9. What percentage of the Roman empire was enslaved? What are some of the different ways individuals found themselves in this situation? Why does this matter to us?
3. What foundational ethic does this passage teach for a follower of Jeus Christ? What is the only valid reason for disobeying our employer?
4. How are we to treat those whom the Lord has given a position of power over us? Why?
5. What three characteristics explain how we are supposed to live out God’s command given in verse 5? How does our manner of work display itself?
6. Do we only work hard when we know we’re being watched? Why/why not? How do we work with genuineness, reliability, and dedication as Paul suggests?
7. When we comprehend what it cost Jesus to save us, what task is too difficult, too demeaning, or too dull for us to not to do it to the best of our ability? What is our motive for this behavior?
8. Will anything God commands us to do in His Word, that is done in His name and for His glory pass His notice? Go unapproved? Why?
9. How should supervisors treat the people under their command? Why does Paul give the negative command found in verse 9? What is the risk if we don’t obey it?