Apr 13, 2020
Scott Hatfield is back on the podcast to unpack 'father wounds' -- the pain and trauma from our past. We talk about the impact it still has in our lives and how with God's help we can own our wounds, find freedom and settle the past.
1. How do you react when you hear the term “father wounds?”
2. As a boy, how did you figure out how to be a man?
3. Some causes of father wounds are neglect, absence, and abuse.
How have any of those reasons given you wounds?
4. Who filled the father role in your life? In what ways did they
fill that role well? How did they struggle in that role?
5. What are some destructive patterns you have in your life that
are a result of unhealed wounds? (Extreme bitterness, great rage,
unworthy, incompetent, unloveable?)
6. Do you passively or aggressively respond to your wounds? How
does that play out?
7. Is your version of God representative of the picture of your
father? Was he a demanding rule follower? Passive aggressive?
8. How are the wounds you have received going to change the way you
parent or are going to parent?
9. What part of your identity do you need to understand in light of
how much God loves you so that you can live in freedom from others'
view of you?
10. If you could tell your dad one thing in a moment of
transparency and vulnerability, what would it be? What is the one
thing you would want to hear your dad say about you?
11. Pray for the wounds in your Group that were voiced in this
discussion.