1.What fascinates you about the future?

2.What do you think the disciples were thinking when Jesus finished this message?

3.What might the surviving disciples have thought in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed?

4.Why are false prophets so often focused on the future?

5.In what situations in your life are you just waiting?

1.How does our society program people, from a young age, to be dishonest?

2.What motivates Christians to be less than honest about who they are?

3.How does institutional lack of integrity hurt the cause of Christ?

4.Have you had people in your life who consistently modeled integrity?

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?