Chapter 18: Serving with a Willing Heart

1.  What gifts do you see in your children?  How do you nurture them?

2.  How can we help our children develop empathy and compassion?

3.  When do you insist your children serve?

4.  Reflect on how the sin in your life makes you resist responsibility.

Action Point-
In Luke 10: 30-37, Jesus tells the parable of the good Samaritan [Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.  Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.  So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.  But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.  And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, `Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.'  Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?"  He said, "The one who showed mercy on him." And Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."]  Read this story to your children.  Ask them why this Samaritan, who was not a religious Jew,  was considered to be the one who did God's will.  What does this teach us about how God wants us to act in our daily lives?