FOLLOWUP | Praying Like Jesus

Dear parents,

This is the last week of our amazing four-lesson study on the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5–7. We’ve taken a deeper look into four issues that are common for humanity past, present, and future.
In this final lesson our students discussed the Lord’s Prayer. In this example of prayer, Jesus shows us how to pray and what we are to pray for. We challenged our teenagers to reflect on the themes of the Lord’s Prayer. We also encouraged them to reflect on their prayer habits and see what they can learn from Jesus about how to pray.

As you go throughout the week, help reinforce this teaching in your teenager’s life by asking these kinds of questions as you have the opportunity:

• Did you learn about prayer that’s different from what you thought before? If so, what?
• How has prayer strengthened your friendship with God? If it hasn’t, why do you think that’s the case?
• How does receiving God’s forgiveness allow us to forgive others?
• This was the last week of your Sermon on the Mount series. What ideas or themes stuck out to you the most from those four lessons, and why?

Have a blessed week!