Abraham & Isaac
These questions are connected to the message, Stuff You Didn’t Hear in Sunday School: Abraham & Isaac. You can watch it here.
- What stood out to you from this message? What challenged you, inspired you, or confused you?
- Discuss (or journal about) the idea that this story is less about a test of faith from God and more about the way God reorients a worldview to show God’s provision.
- Have you ever sensed God telling you to do something but then later recognized that the voice you thought you heard was actually coming from an emotional place like your anxiety or your fear, or even from others? How did you reconcile that?
- What messages about sacrifice and doing God’s work have been handed down to us by our culture, our church, and our theology?
- How can we honour God in our lives and within our families without sacrificing our well-being?
- Pastor Zach Lambert has said, “The narrative of scripture is not humans laying down their lives for God, but God laying down his life for us.” What does this look like in your life?
- As we go through this series, Stuff You Didn’t Hear in Sunday School, what other stories in the Bible have you started to question? In what parts of scripture have you started asking the question, ‘what else might be going on here?’