Icebreaker Question: Share one memory (positive or challenging) about a father figure in your life. How has that relationship shaped how you view authority or love?

Discussion Questions
Understanding Our Filter

1. Pastor Robb mentioned that "whatever we believe, we behave." How have your beliefs about God shaped the way you live your daily life?
2. Which "road" have you found yourself traveling on in your relationship with God?
   • The road of fear
   • The road of religion (working to please God)
   • The road of safety (one foot in, one foot out)
3. What misconceptions about God have you had to unlearn? What helped you see Him differently?

The Father's Heart

4. In the Prodigal Son story, which character do you most identify with right now?
   • The younger son (distant, rebellious, ashamed)
   • The older son (faithful but resentful, transactional)
   • The father (extending grace to others)
   • The bystanders (observing but not engaging)
5. The father in the story ran to his son while he was "still a far off." What does this reveal about how God sees you right now, in your current state?
6. Pastor Robb shared how God told him: "If you never went to church again, never prayed again, never read my word again... that will never change my love for you." How does this challenge or comfort you?

God in Our Weakness

7. Hebrews tells us Jesus "sympathizes with our weaknesses." What current struggle, weakness, or "infirmity" do you need to bring before God, knowing He understands and doesn't condemn?
8. How does knowing that God is present in your weakness (not distant from it) change how you approach Him in prayer?

Reflection Questions:

1. What would change in my life if I truly believed God loves me unconditionally?
2. What "circus hoops" have I been jumping through to try to earn God's approval?
3. Complete this sentence: "God, I struggle to believe that you..."
4. How do I need to receive the Father's embrace today?