Questions:
- What was confusing, convicting, or encouraging from this study of Scripture?
- Why is it important that God speaks to all parties in this list of instructions to husbands and wives, fathers and children, and masters and slaves?
- The instruction to husbands and wives feels very countercultural. How would you explain to an astonished outsider why this is such good news for men and women?
- God calls children to obey their parents, how does submission to earthly authority reflect our relationship with God?
- Thinking about parents and children: What are some bad examples in each of these categories—in yourself or others? How would living in obedience to God’s Word here change these scenarios?
- According to verses 22-24, what should our work look like? How does Paul’s greater purpose for work encourage or challenge you?
- Thinking about slaves and masters (employers and employees): What are some bad examples in each of these categories—in yourself or others? How would living in obedience to God’s Word here change these scenarios?
- In all of these instructions, who is the ultimate master? Who should be the master in our home and in our work? How does this change how we view these relationships?
- By God’s grace, what needs to change in your life based on this study of Colossians 3:18-4:1?
