Hosea: God’s Redeeming Love | Hosea 1:1-11

1. Do you believe that God uses our lives to tell a story?

2. How does Hosea’s relationship with his unfaithful wife exemplify the relationship God has with Israel?

3. How can a person forgive another person for such unfaithfulness as Hosea did his wife Gomer? Where does that kind of forgiveness come from?

4. How does idolatry compare with unfaithfulness of a spouse?

5. Read Hosea 3:1-3. How does Hosea paying a price to purchase his own wife from slavery illustrate what Christ did at the cross? Compare with 1 Peter 1:18-19.

6. Why didn’t Hosea just divorce his wife for being unfaithful? Do you think he was just that good of a man?

7. What is your biggest take away from Hosea’s life?