Follow-Up Study Guide To:

Creating Boundaries: The Value of Discipline
Part 2 of 4 in the series “Help, I’m A Parent!”

August 9, 2009 Pastor Scott Oldenburgh

Write out your definition of discipline. Give some practical examples from your own life where you faced discipline.

ê What is the goal of discipline?

Using the concordance in the back of your Bible or using an internet concordance, find 10-12 verses that speak to the subject of discipline.

ê What do you think God’s purpose for discipline is?

Read Proverbs 1

ê After looking at this chapter, what do you think the value of discipline is for those that accept it?

ê Why is discipline necessary?

ê As a parent, what role does discipline play in your parenting style?

ê Are you a pushover parent? Are you the stern, bulldog parent?

ê Have you ever found a time when discipline was difficult with your children?

ê Why would you discipline your kids?

ê Is discipline a tool of correction? Teaching? Control? Power? Love?

Read Hebrews 12:1-14

ê Why does God discipline?

ê How does it feel when you are being disciplined?

ê How can these two truths serve one another?

ê Can you think of an example of something that shows no discipline?

ê What are the struggles with something undisciplined?

ê What are the dangers?

ê Can something undisciplined continue to grow or be healthy?

ê For how long? For what purpose?

One of the characteristics of God that comforts us is that He is consistent and dependable.

ê Does it matter that discipline is consistent? Dependable?

ê Why or why not?

ê How does our ability to be consistent or dependable with our own children help teach the value of discipline?

ê What is the biggest struggle to being consistent in your discipline to your children?

ê Is it easy or more difficult?

Pray and thank God for the value of discipline Find a teaching time this week to talk to your children about the role of discipline. Ask them if they know why discipline happens. Use a teachable story or illustration to talk to them about things that live undisciplined lives. Assure them that you love them far too much to allow that to happen to them.