REALLIFE
STUDY GROUP
“Founding
Fathers”
ICEBREAKER: Tell us one of your favorite states in
America, besides Ohio, and why you feel that way.
CONFESSION: Fathering, coaching, mentoring, encouraging,
influencing and servant-leadership are the calling and the goal of every mature
believer on some level. I choose to
allow my Heavenly Father to father someone through me this week. Fathering boils down to loving someone enough
to care.
DEFINITIONS: What is a founding father?
·
One
who foresees the problem and becomes the answer
·
One
who lays a foundation and becomes a cornerstone
·
One
who builds an altar and becomes the sacrifice
·
One
who prepares a harvest and becomes a seed
·
One
who runs a race and becomes a baton
·
One
who starts a revolution and becomes a warrior
·
One
who pioneers a trail and becomes a path
·
One
who shines a light and becomes a torch
·
One
who casts a vision and becomes the blueprint
·
One
who preaches a message and becomes the example
OUTLINE: What
are the fatherless waiting for?
Fathers to bless them by...
1.
Repenting
of hypocrisy and iniquity
2.
Walking
in integrity and intellectual honesty
3.
Interceding
for their posterity
4.
Resourcing
their destiny
5.
Affirming
their identity
6.
Cultivating
their ability
7.
Stimulating
their creativity
8.
Defining
their priority
9.
Releasing
their opportunity
10. Recognizing their individuality
11. Prophesying their possibility and potentiality
12. Forgiving their animosity and hostility
13. Vanquishing their enemy
TEXT: Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 1:1-17; 1 John 2:12-14
STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:
1.
Describe
a problem in our society due to lack of fathering for which people are looking
for answers?
2.
Why
does the Apostle John, in 1 John 2:12-14, say he writes to little children, to
young men and to fathers?
3.
Give
one reason why people in our society seem to be so angry?
4.
Describe
your relationship with your dad.
5.
If
you could say one thing to your dad or father figure in your life what would it
be?
6.
How
do you think we, as believers or as a church, can help the fatherless in our
world?
PRAISE & PRAYER REQUESTS: