Sermon Outline:
- The Lord cultivated a vineyard
- The vineyard produced wild grapes
- The Lord lays His vineyard to waste
- The vineyard will thrive when it abides in the true vine.
Family Discussion Questions
1. What does this word-picture of God as the vinedresser and the people as a vineyard say about God and His people?
2. What is the good fruit the vinedresser expected? What is the stink-fruit He got?
3. What are ways that we can take the nourishing gifts of God and use them to produce rotten fruit?
4. What is the just thing for God to do when His nourishing gifts are producing rotten fruit in His vineyard?
5. Did the rotten fruit of God’s vineyard show that God’s plan for His people had failed? What did God want His people to learn by allowing the vineyard to get so rotten?
6. Is there a possible way to be a part of God’s vineyard and be confident that you will remain in it and even produce good fruit?
7. What does it mean when Jesus says He is the true vine?
8. How was Jesus able to be the vine through which the whole vineyard would be able to survive and thrive?
9. What is the future plan God has for His vineyard rooted in the true vine?
