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I. Understand God’s goal for His children.
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Adopt God’s goal for your children.
Big Idea: Your primary goal as a parent is to raise kids that love God and love people.
Study Guide
1. Have you ever written out a priority list for your family?
If so, what’s on it?
Why is it important for a family to clearly understand these priorities?
What happens if they don’t?
2. What makes loving God the greatest command?
What does it look like in practical terms to love God with your heart, soul, and might?
Why is it important for a family to clearly understand these priorities?
What happens if they don’t?
3. Why do you think loving God comes before loving others?
What does it look like in practical terms to love your neighbor as yourself?
Why do you think loving God comes before loving others?
4. What actions and attitudes make it evident that people love their neighbors as themselves?
5. Why are each of these commands foundational to the life of a Christ follower?
What happens if you choose to obey one but not the other?
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Why do you think love is such a defining mark of the Christian?
Do we tend to think of love as the primary mark of the Christian life?
If not, what do we think of as that mark?
Why?
7. What most frequently stands in the way of you truly loving others?
What are some tangible expressions of this kind of love you might practice this week: At your workplace?
In your home?
With your friends?
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