Ephesians 6:1-4

If you are a parent, take time this week to work through these verses with your kids.

Connection Group Discussion Questions:

1. What is the goal of being a parent? Children: What is the goal of growing up?

2. Parents: What does it look like in your home to bring your children up in the "training and instruction of the Lord?"

3. Children: Do you really believe that it may not go well with you if you do not honor your father and mother? Then why do we disobey?

4. Once we, as children, have “grown up,” do we still have to obey our parents? What does it look like to honor them? - ex. When do parents stop telling their children what to do and when do children get to stop obeying?

5. Parents: What does exasperating your children say about your trust in God‘s sovereignty over their lives?

6. Adult Children: What does not honoring your parents say about your trust in God’s sovereignty over both your life and their lives? Do you ever try to play the role of the parent with your parents? Do you honor your father and mother as adults in a way that glorifies God?

7. If parents and children are both playing the roles God has given them, (children honoring and obeying; fathers not exasperating and training) does this verse apply to these relationships throughout life?

8. Parents: What does it look like to not exasperate your children as they get older, even moving into adulthood?

9. Thinking about this passage: Parents, how does being a child of God and our relationship with Him affect the way we parent our own children? Children, how does our relationship with God the Father affect the way we serve those who look up to us?

10. Do we as children of God really believe that He, the father, is trying to train and instruct us for the best life He has to offer? Then why do we disobey?