Week 6 | Right In The Eye | How Ruthie and Bo Saved Christmas
DIG IN DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
•What is one of your favorite family Christmas traditions? Why is it special to you?
•Why do you think it’s so difficult for people to recognize the connection between disobedience and disaster in their own lives?
•Read Ruth 1:15–19. What reasons may God have had to include Ruth—a woman who wasn’t even from the nation of Israel—in his plans for the first Christmas?
•Read Ruth 2:10–23. What characteristics do Boaz and Ruth have in common? In what ways do those characteristics reflect their willingness to yield to God’s will?
•Consider how Jesus was a king who would leverage his power for the powerless. How does that differ from what we usually expect of kings? What does it say about what and who God values?
•What is one area of your life about which you need to declare to God, “I no longer want to do what is right in my eyes. I’m ready to do what is right in your eyes.” How can this group help you follow through on that declaration?
•Read Ruth 2:10–23. What characteristics do Boaz and Ruth have in common? In what ways do those characteristics reflect their willingness to yield to God’s will?
•Consider how Jesus was a king who would leverage his power for the powerless. How does that differ from what we usually expect of kings? What does it say about what and who God values?
•What is one area of your life about which you need to declare to God, “I no longer want to do what is right in my eyes. I’m ready to do what is right in your eyes.” How can this group help you follow through on that declaration?