You Can’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty – Surviving Parents

Surviving as a Teen

Discussion, Part 6

Open: Why do you think God gave you parents?

Discussion

• What do you think you need in order to survive and have a great relationship with your parents?
• Why do so many people end up with bad relationships to their parents?
• Why is it important to God that you’re teachable when it comes to your parents?
• How should you respond if your parents ask you to do something that you know God wouldn’t want?
• What does it mean to honor somebody?
• Why is it so hard to serve people?
• Have you noticed how your parents respond differently when you’re humble than when you’re proud?
• How does life change when you’re thankful about everything?
• Can you think of a time where you might have to be patient with your parents?
• Why should you be generous to your parents?

Cross-References: Proverbs 13:1, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, James 4:6, Luke 6:38

Reflect:

• How is your own relationship with your parents?  Thriving, barely surviving, or floundering?
• How would you rate yourself for being willing to learn from your parents, on a scale of 1 to 10?
• Think of some ways that you, personally, can honor your parents at work, school, and home.
• How can you bless your parents by serving them?  How can you be generous to them?
• Do you need to repent to your parents for being unthankful?  Anything else you’re gonna have to change?

Prayer:

• Pray that each of you would have great relationships with your parents, even when you are parents yourselves.
• Pray and ask God to show you what you need to change in how you’ve been treating your parents.  Ask God for strength and wisdom to do what He asks.

Memory Verse: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. – 1 Corinthians 13:11