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Discussion QuestionS
Genesis 45
The Brother’s Reunited

1. “Come near to me” What makes it hard for you to let someone be different than they used to be?

Where in your life do you still treat someone according to who they were rather than who God may be making them?

• Think family roles (siblings still treating each other like kids, parents not seeing adult children clearly)

• Work (coworkers who actually are growing but we assume the worst)

• Marriage (holding your spouse in the “old version” of them)

2. Where have you seen genuine change in someone you know,but struggled to believe it?

Why is it hard to trust that God can change someone who once hurt you?

What emotions rise up when you see their growth?

3. What does Joseph’s theology of God’s sovereignty change about how he views the past?

Joseph says three times: “God sent me.”
”Where do you struggle to see God’s hand in painful events from your past?
How might God’s sovereignty free you from bitterness or desire for payback?

4. What “phone call” or conversation is God nudging you toward?

Without naming names inappropriately, is there:
a conversation you’ve been avoiding?
someone you need to move toward, not away from?
someone who is repenting yet you’re keeping at arm’s length?

What would obedience look like this week?

5. “Do not quarrel on the way” — What past issue do you keep re-litigating?

Where do you keep replaying the tape of what someone did to you?
What do you gain by rehashing it?
What would it look like to “let it go” because Christ has let your sin go?

6. What does forgiveness not mean in unhealthy or dangerous situations?

Where in your life is reconciliation not wise or safe right now?
How can we balance Joseph’s mercy with biblical wisdom about boundaries?

Read: Romans 12:18 — “If possible… live peaceably.” (Which implies sometimes it is not possible.)

7. How does Jesus’ “Come near to Me” shape the way you respond when you sin?

Do you run to Christ or from Him when you fall?
How does His mercy toward you empower mercy toward others?

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