Sermon outline:
- Sewing seeds according to God’s wisdom
- Resting according to God’s sovereignty.
- Hoping in the harvest according to God’s timing.
Family discussion questions:
- What does the seed scattering represent in this parable?
- What are the ordinary means of grace?
- What does it mean that they are ordinary?
- What does it mean that they are means of grace?
- Why is the farmer able to go to sleep? What does that teach us about the growth of God’s kingdom?
- What does the harvest represent in this parable?
- How does the Gospel which is the foundation of God's kingdom teach us how God’s kingdom grows?
- What questions or help does this parable grant to a parent who is anxious about the salvation of their children?
- How does this parable help us know what to expect of our churches?
- What warnings might this give to a church that is straying from God’s means of growing His kingdom?
- Have you felt the anxiety of trusting in yourself rather than God to grow His kingdom? How would this parable respond to that anxiety?
