The prodigal son questions and answers
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↬What is this story about?
Money?
Wild living?
Stubbornness?
Forgiveness?
Anger?
↬Who wants his share of the family inheritance?
↬Are you aware that both boys receive their inheritance at the same time?
↬Who received more?
↬What does the younger brother do with his money?
↬Was the famine in the land representing his own behavior or was it a real famine like Joseph experienced in Egypt?
↬What must it have been like for everyone to desert him?
↬Have you ever found that if you have some money everyone wants to be your friend until the money is gone?
↬What was this experience telling him about true friendship?
↬Did his dad kick him out of the house for asking for his inheritance?
↬Where did he go when he didn’t have any money?
↬What did he end up doing to earn food and shelter?
↬Why was this a repulsive activity? (Jews saw pigs as unclean)
↬What did he think about while feeding the swine?
↬What did he decide to do?
↬When he returns, how does his father greet him?
↬With angry words?
↬With "I told you this would happen?"
↬With love?
↬What does the father do to make the son feel at home?
↬Why does the older brother get angry?
↬Do you think he was justified for being upset that his brother got a party?
↬What was the father's message to the younger son?
↬What was the father's message to the older son?
↬Was this a case of unconditional love?
↬If you were the older brother, what do you think the father should have done to your brother?
↬Why did the older brother think the younger brother should be punished?
↬Do you want to see people punished before you forgive them?
↬What things are happening in the world today that require forgiveness?
↬What do you think of the father's handling of things?
↬What makes a good father?
↬Describe the qualities you want in a good father.
Are these the same qualities you find in God as Father?