This week’s message was entitled “The Gospel at Home”. From Colossians 3:18-21 we heard about what it looks like when a “new man” makes a “new home.” As we did, we grew in our understanding of God’s design for the home, for marriage, and for the family. In order to better understand God’s plan for us, consider these questions:
- When it comes to the home how have you had to put aside the pattern of the world and put on the way of the Kingdom?
- When you first heard of the instruction for wives to submit to their husbands, what was your response? How has your response changed and why?
- “Husbands love your wives.” Why does this need to be stated here in Colossians 3:19? What parallel passages give the same kind of instruction and give us greater understanding?
- Consider the motivation for obedience and the danger of provoking found in Colossians 3:20-21. How should the instructions found here affect the way that we teach, train, or correct the children in our lives?
- In recent weeks we have considered how we can be more intentional in passing the gospel to the next generation. How does our response to these passages fit with that call?
Let us pray this week that our homes would reflect the new presence, the new power, the new purpose, and the new pattern that are all found in Christ.
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