Icebreaker: If you could be a part of one fictitious family, which one would it be and why? (i.e. The Addams family, The Brady Bunch, Skywalkers, Seinfeld… etc.)
1- How familiar are you with the Prodigal Son story? Try to summarize it as a group if you can.
READ Luke 15:11-16
2- Each week in this series we are focusing on a different character in the story. This week we are focusing on the younger son. Do you know someone (maybe even yourself) who has been a modern-day Prodigal Son/Daughter? How so?
3- The son’s needs (specifically his hunger) drove him back to his father. Today we are in a season as humans, where our own needs are more apparent than usual. How have you seen this time drive you (or others) back to God?
READ Luke 15:17-20
4- Where is the point of your biggest need in life right now? How can you seek God to be the provider of that need, rather than worldly solutions?
5- Because we are so familiar with this story, it is easy to not be in awe at the father’s response to seeing his son. Think about your own sins, and how the father in this story is meant to symbolize God’s response to us turning towards Him in repentance. Now, how does the father’s response resonate differently with you?
6- Verse 17 says that the son’s return started with him “coming to his senses.” Have you had a moment like this with God; where you came to your senses and returned to Him? Share with the group as a way to encourage others with a story of repentance!
READ Luke 15:21-24
7- Do you struggle with the idea that your worth/identity is not tied up in what you do? If not, have you ever fallen into that trap of believing your worth to God is tied up in what you do in the past? If so, how did God bring you out of that?
8- In verses 18-19 and 21 the son plans to revoke his sonship say that he will become a servant in his father’s household. The father responds by calling him his son. Knowing this is a metaphorical picture of our relationship with God, how does this encourage you and embolden your view of yourself?
READ Luke 15:10
9- Jesus says heaven rejoices over a sinner repenting. How can we strive to make a bigger deal of holiness, repentance, and confession in our own lives and the lives of people we know?
10- A second takeway from this verse (v.10) that precedes the Prodigal story is that repentance leads to rejoicing in heaven, but is oftentimes awkwardly approached if ever talked about here on earth. Why do you think that is? How can we work to change that stigma at REVO?
11- Thinking back to question 2 where we discussed different “prodigals” we may know of, how can you pray for them, or reach out to them with the Gospel in mind this week?
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