Honor Your Father and Mother
Main Point: God’s desire for the family is that it be a place where parents are honor-able and children honor their parents
Takeaway: Parents acting honor-ably and their children showing honor to their parents is the vision of the family we are asked to make a reality.
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Discussion Questions
- What is your first, gut-level reaction to “honor your father and your mother”?
- What are some concrete ways you can think of that a person can honor their parents when they are pre-teens? As teenagers? As adults?
- What would you say to someone who said they could not honor a parent because that parent did not deserve their honor?
- How does knowing Jesus enable us to keep this commandment?
Table Discussion Question: What is one good thing you can say about your parents? If they are available to you (live nearby, can be Face-timed or called) why not tell them that.