Essential – Week 3
Icebreaker:
- What was the most maddening thing your parents did when you were a child?
- Take 15 minutes to share about what God is doing in your life, share prayer requests and pray together.
Main idea:
Your life is essential in God’s plan, but not in the way you think.
Going deeper:
- In light of this week’s sermon, what is new information, challenged, or stood out to you?
Read aloud Ephesians 5:21-33
- How does the relationship between Christ and the church help explain what Paul means by “submission”?
- How does that relationship help explain the role of the husband in marriage?
- To what expression of “headship” – Christ’s and the husband’s – is the wife asked to submit: The sacrificial kind? The bossy kind? Or both?
- Can a wife’s respect for her husband (5:33) be commanded? Or must it be earned?
- Why?
Application:
- How does Paul’s teaching about marriage challenge common ideas today?
- Which affect you?
- What principles flowing from these passages can you work on to help you be a better spouse (or potential spouse)?
- How can your group hold you accountable?
