Follow-Up Study Guide To:

Teaching Balance
Part 1 of 4 in the series “Help, I’m A Parent!”

August 2, 2009 Pastor Scott Oldenburgh

ê What is the earliest memory you have of disobeying your parents?

ê What happened?

ê What was your decision making process?

ê What type of things did you have to weigh in your mind to make the decision?

ê What is the earliest memory you have of your parents offering forgiveness and grace when you did something wrong?

ê How did it feel to be restored?

Read Romans 1:5 and Romans 6:15-23

ê What is your definition of obedience?

ê To what or to whom do you find the need to display obedience? Why?

ê Why is obedience necessary?

ê When is obedience overstated?

ê What is the value of obedience?

Read Romans 3:9-21

ê What is your definition of grace?

ê How can one receive grace?

ê What is the purpose of grace?

ê Who is able to give grace?

ê How can grace be abused?

ê What value does grace have in our faith?

As a parent teaching the balance between grace and obedience is crucial in our children’s faith development

ê Which of the two, grace or obedience, do you normally stress the most?

ê What about your spouse?

ê What are things that you are currently doing with your children to help them understand the need for obedience?

ê What are things that you are doing or a story of something you did, that has taught the value of grace?

ê What part of your life story models this balance between grace and obedience?

ê Have you ever shared your personal story with your children?

Take time to talk to your children about how you came to know God in your life, how you learned to follow Him, and some mistakes that you made along the way.

Read back over the story found in Luke 10 about the Father and the son. Take time this week to talk about this story with your children.

ê What do you want them to know about the Father?

ê What do you want them to know about the son?

Ask your children questions about the story and ask them if they can think of ways this story applies to them