ONLINE WORSHIP

February 15th, 2026

Scripture: Genesis 16:13-16, 12:17-21

Theme: God sees and hears the ones who are pushed out. God’s vision for belonging is bigger, broader, more expansive than we imagine.

Questions:

• Read Genesis 12:10-16 - How might this experience have impacted Sarai?

• When you read Hagar’s story with Sarai’s experience in mind, how do you understand Sarai’s behavior?

• Why do you think God tells Hagar to go back and endure suffering “under Sarai’s hand”? What reaction does this stir in you?

• What emotion do you sense in Hagar’s response to being seen? (16:13)

• When have you felt seen by God or another person? What response did it move in you?

• In Genesis 21, God tells Abraham to listen to Sarah and send out Ishmael and his mother. God assures Abraham that God will provide for Ishmael. How have you seen God work through self-protective choices you have made that may have caused harm to others?

• What transformation do you see in Hagar in verses 21:15-21? What agency is she given?

• Read Lev 19:33-34. How does the law of Moses address Hagar’s story?