Sentence:
"Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved." Acts 2:46–47
Collect:
Heavenly Father, thank you for our adoption into your family, the church; help us be what you call us to be so that the world may be struck by the sweetness of our love and unity and come to know that God is here. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen
Readings
Questions:
NB. These questions courtesy of Redemptive Family Devotional and Workbook by Howard Webb and the Love Your Neighbour team. 2021
Being Family
1. What is your happiest childhood memory of being together? How did this experience make you feel?
2. Have you ever been uncomfortable around someone because of their appearance or background yet later became friends? Tell of your experience.
Dig
Read Romans 12:3-16
3. How does “ belonging to each other” run counter to our cultural conditioning?
4 The passage mentions several ways we live our belonging to each other and supporting each other. How many can you find?
5. In this passage Paul moved back and forth between talking about our conduct inside the family and our conduct outside it. How does consistently practicing being authentic family together train us for mission together?
6. Imagine yourself an outsider looking in on a family living by these values. What would you be thinking and feeling?
Reflect
7. What is our biggest challenge to putting this passage into practice for ourselves?
8. What is the one thing this group can do to enrich our experience of a family together?
1. What is your happiest childhood memory of being together? How did this experience make you feel?
2. Have you ever been uncomfortable around someone because of their appearance or background yet later became friends? Tell of your experience.
Dig
Read Romans 12:3-16
3. How does “ belonging to each other” run counter to our cultural conditioning?
4 The passage mentions several ways we live our belonging to each other and supporting each other. How many can you find?
5. In this passage Paul moved back and forth between talking about our conduct inside the family and our conduct outside it. How does consistently practicing being authentic family together train us for mission together?
6. Imagine yourself an outsider looking in on a family living by these values. What would you be thinking and feeling?
Reflect
7. What is our biggest challenge to putting this passage into practice for ourselves?
8. What is the one thing this group can do to enrich our experience of a family together?
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