Family Discipleship

Pray for your family 
(For Personal, Financial, Spiritual needs of each members in the family)

Pray for your extended family
(Pray for their Protection, Family needs, and Salvation experience of the one’s who do not know Christ)

Pray for the City/ State
(Pray for the government, and different public department eg. Police, health, education etc.)

Pray for your Nation
(Pray for the political leaders, eradication of unethical acts & anti social elements, eg. child abuse, sexual harassment, divorce etc.)

Pray For the World
(Pray for different nations especially for peace within country and with neighboring countries)

Pray for Christian Leaders
(Pray for different Christian leaders, their family, Ministry needs and God’s guidance.)

Thank God for the week
(Thank God for answered prayers and pray that you will always have an attitude of gratitude to God.)

1. Ask children about their best friends or about their best meal.
2. Tell them also about  your best child hood friend and some of the fun times you had.

1. Share about your memories of your grandpa and grandma and your visit to native place.
2. Ask children to share which is the place they love to visit and why?

1. If money is not an issue, what would you like to own? And Why?
2. Share with your children your struggle or your parents struggle with money to even meet some basic needs. If you did not have any struggle…ask them as to how much they know or feel  about people struggling without money for their daily living, especially in a time like this.

1. Whats is that you like most about each other. Take turn and answer one by one.
2. What is that you would like to me to do to make our home a better place? ( Please give freedom to tell anything and don’t defend or argue or get worked up if something is said which is difficult to hear. We are here to build our home ..so listen and say, I will try my best.)

Ask each one and listen to words and feelings expressed:

1. What is your greatest fear and why?
2. How can we as a family help one another to overcome each of our fear?

1. Share to each other your favourite hobby and what inspired you for this hobby?
2. If you have a full time job connected to your hobby what would that be? And then
   would you like it?

1. Recollect an incident when you did good to someone and how they felt really happy. Take turns to share.
2. Share how you felt when you made someone happy. Also think of ways you can make someone happy in the days to come…by a small good deed

1. Share about a person whom you think don’t agree with you and why?
2. How can we respond differently to such people keeping relationship and respect intact?

1. What is the best gift you have received? Why is it the best?
2. How did you feel when you received it ? Share with each other your experience in detail instead of one word..like great, exciting!

1. Have you received any kind of rewards, awards or any prizes? If so, share about it and how you felt when you received it?
2. Can each have you shared any incident that someone at your home did for you for whom you are thankful? It can be a small thing, but it means a lot to you. Only one incident …but make sure everybody is covered. You can even assign one person for each!

1. Who is the person whom you would like to spend maximum time with if given a choice. Why?
2. Other than your immediate family, who is the person that you think will enjoy spending time with you? Why?
3. Name 3 people each whom you have not connected for a long time and you want to connect? Can you make it a point to call those 3 people within the next 24 hours?

1. Recollect a time when someone's hug meant a lot to you and why?
2. What kind of expression makes you feel more loved?

1. How do you feel when someone encourages you?
2. Recollect an incident when someone encouraged you when you were feeling low?

1. What annoys you the most in a relationship and why?
2. Take turns and share one characteristic about each other which you think the
   other is better than you. ( This will require a bit of thinking and humilty)

1. When we see children begging in streets or in their dirty clothes what thoughts come into our mind about them? Why?
2. If the same child was well dressed and spoke your kind of language how
   differently would you treat the person and why?

1. Ask each to share about your worst disappointment in the past?
2. How did you get out of it? Recollect how you coped with it and share?

1. If all gadgets are removed from our lives. How would be spending our day?
2. List all the goodness and badness of Internet. ( A good time to teach about the negative effect of internet)

1. Can you recollect an incident when someone lost their cool badly and what happened as a result of that?
2. What do you think really makes you feel angry?

1. Share an incident about a person who kept their anger against you and reacted much later in a bad way? How did you feel during that time?
2. Is there anyone about you feel upset and you tend to be revengeful? If so, how can you get rid of that feeling and be free?

1. Did anyone tell you a big lie which you found out later? How did you feel?
2. Can anyone share one incident how telling the truth helped you?

1. Each one would share one of the funny incident that happened in one’s own life where you made a fool of yourself and it was so funny to remember it!
2. Who among your family member is most funny and why?

1. How much do you like your work and why?
2. Is your work presently helping you to balance your life, work and family? Why or why not?

1. How do you feel when you enter a home that is well ordered and clean? Why?
2. What are the things that you think you can live without, that needs to be thrown , given away or discarded?

1. List some of the things that you are proud about as an individual and  as a family?
2. How much has this pride built relationship or broken relationship?

1. If your neighbour’s house is robbed , but the thief who also came to your house did not touch any of your belonging, describe your true feelings about it?
2. If the reverse happens how would you feel?

1. When people forget a good deed done by you, what is the feeling behind it?
2. Name a few people who have made a difference in your life whom you have lost touch?

1. What do we want to achieve in life? Why?
2. Share some thoughts about when you will be fully satisfied?

1. Share some of the daily task done by each one that is done for the common good of the family?
2. Take time to thank and appreciate one another for those tasks which otherwise gets unnoticed?

1. What are some of the beliefs about marriage that we have derived from the society?
2. Has that helped your marriage or has it been a deterrent?

1. What does Faith in God mean to you?
2. How has it helped you to be a better person?

1. Who is your closest friend and why do you consider him or her close?
2. What is one main quality you like in a friend?

1. What are some of the common gossip about corona virus?
2. How much is it true and verified answer, how much is it purely assumption and imagination?

1. How do you feel when people use regular vulgar language in their conversation with you?
2. Are these profane words helpful or harmful? Why?

1. Share some incidents when you had a conversation with someone who thinks differently from you?
2. How did you respond or react? How do you treat that person now?