Before Amen by Max Lucado
Week 3: Chapter 2 — Father
Read Chapter 2 of Before Amen by Max Lucado. Key passages: Matthew 6:9; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6.
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The very first word of the pocket prayer carries enormous weight — "Father" — and Lucado spends this chapter exploring what it means to approach the Creator of the universe as your dad.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Lucado emphasizes that Jesus taught us to address God as "Father" — Abba, a term of intimate familiarity. How does that word feel to you when you pray it? Natural? Strange? Comforting? Why?
2.The author acknowledges that for many people, the word "father" carries pain rather than warmth because of difficult earthly fathers. How can those wounds shape — and sometimes distort — our image of God as Father?
a.If your experience with your earthly father was difficult, what specific truth about God as Father do you most need to internalize?
b.How might you pray through that healing specifically?
3.Romans 8:15 says we have received "the Spirit of adoption" and cry out "Abba, Father." What does adoption imagery add to our understanding of our relationship with God — particularly the idea that it was chosen, not accidental?
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