Week 1 | Right in The Eye | Right In Their Eyes
DIG IN:
- Do you ever daydream about a life in which you don’t have to answer to anyone—your boss, your parents, your spouse, the IRS? What is the allure of that kind of fantasy?
- As you look around the cultural landscape, what consequences do you see of people doing what they want, when they want, with whom they want?
- Consider the story in Judges 19–20. How is it that circumstances spun out of control even though everyone in the story did what he thought was right? In your own life, when have you seen or experienced bad consequences from people doing what they thought was right.
- Think about a time in your life when you chose to do what was right in your own eyes. In what ways did it hurt you, the people with you, the people who care about you, or the people coming after you?
- Consider this statement from the message; “The thing that has mastered you—debt, addiction, cycles of bad behavior—began as an expression of your freedom.” What has mastered you? What do you think it would take to break that thing’s mastery over you?
- If you were God, how would you respond to a culture, a nation, or an individual characterized by an attitude of what I want, when I want it, with whom I want?