1.Why do so many people refuse the invitation to receive God’s grace?

2.Why are government, family and religion more interesting to some people than grace?

3.Why are Christians so ungracious at times?

4.What obstacles kept you from following Jesus and how did you ultimately overcome those obstacles?

1.When have you felt most misunderstood? When have you felt most understood?

2.Why do you think people tend to monetize and commercialize church?

3.What does a fruitful life look like?

4.Have you seen more people finish strong who started weak or starting weak and finishing strong?

5.Why do God’s messengers get attacked so often?

1.Do you have any ways of thinking, or habits, that get in the way of how God wants to work through you?

2.What is a time that someone treated you with kindness in a way that changed you?

3.What gets in the way of being kind?

4.Take a moment to pick another person in your group and share something meaningful and kind towards them?

5.In what ways do you want to be kind this week?

1.When have you been offended by people not treating you with the respect you deserve?

2.What does success look like for you?

3.How do you deal with the unfairness in life?

4.Who is a servant who has touched your life?

5.How do you aspire to serve?

1.Do you tend to be the kind of person who takes comfort in being better than others or are you the kind of person who feels inferior to others?

2.Why do people care so much about who is right or wrong in a divorce?

3.Did anyone’s divorce have much of an influence on you as a child?

4.Why would helping the poor have a benefit for someone who had been wealthy?

5.How can being guilty affect us in a positive way?

1. Who do you most connect with in this story, the father, the younger son, or the older brother? Why?

2.Why is it sometimes difficult for us to accept God’s graciousness to others who may not deserve it?

3.How do we find the ability to be patient like the father?

4.What is a time where your impatience set you behind in life?

5.In what ways can you be more patient with others?

1.What is your most courageous memory of your father?

2.In what ways, positively and negatively, have you been influenced by your father?

3.How does grace help you form memories of your father that are constructive?

4.How do you most want to be remembered by those who come after you?

1.What have you learned most from being around children?

2.In what ways do you need to become more like a child?

3.What makes us more ambitious as we age?

4.Why is forgiveness so hard? Especially repeated forgiveness?

1.What part of the Transfiguration story fascinates you the most?

2.How have you seen the world of fantasy intersecting with the world as we know it?

3.If you were able to travel backwards or forward in time, where would you want to go?

4.How has your father influenced who you have become?

5.What has been your experience with faith, prayer and fasting?

1.What shortcuts have you taken, as pain avoidance?

2.How can someone like Peter mean so well and be so wrong?

3.What decisions have you made in life that were painful but incredibly worth it?

4.In what ways has your life been harder because you followed Jesus?

5.What has made following Jesus worth the pain?