Describe a time when you have experienced a blessing from someone who is “family” to you.
Read Genesis 12:1–3. What is God’s end purpose in blessing the first generation of Abraham? How have you seen this blessing in your own life?
Read Exodus 20:4–6. In the NIV translation of the Bible, the word translated as “punished” is actually “visited” in the Hebrew language. How have you seen the iniquity of one generation be visited on the next?
Verse 6 talks about a blessing to the thousandth generation, how might God want to use you, his Church, to be a blessing to the thousandth generation?