Discussion Questions
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Describe your feelings about what is said in the lecture about spirituality involving movement and the metaphor of an “ascent” towards God. Do you feel invited to climb the mountain? Do you have a sense of dread or excitement? Explain.
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Everyone is invited to ascend to God.
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Yes, at this point of my life, with a few ‘sudden’ losses, I believe is an invitation of God to climb up the mountain to Him (draw nearer to Him, be still before Him. Listen with quiet trust). It’s an excitement to know God is leading, and at the same time a sense of dread of the unknown.
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Do you genuinely feel a lack of understanding on your part about spiritual things, or do you feel like you have a pretty good understanding already? (It is important to be absolutely honest here.) Are you excited about the possibilities of new discoveries about yourself and God that might forever change your life and take you in directions that you could never have thought possible? Explain.
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I feel a lack of understanding. Yes I am so excited to discover it because I want to change how I relate with God.
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There are some parts I don’t understand but other than that I have a pretty good understanding. Yes, as a Christian we are supposed to grow spiritually and need to for our future.
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I was raised almost all my life in a Pentecostal church with a set of rules that you could not deviate from and it caused me to run from God instead of to God. It made me feel unworthy so when I read this first lecture it opened me up to the possibility that I too could relearn and find God and what he meant to me even in my dysfunction and I am grateful and honestly most of my life I was not a good person and hurt many people due to my judgment of them and what I grew up thinking was right and wrong. I guess you could say I was the Pharisee like in the day of Jesus, now I am learning to be more like Jesus as I relearn and understand, and I am excited about the new discoveries this course will teach me and the new direction it will take me. Thank you for offering this gift to me.
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I have a lack of understanding of spiritual things.
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I feel I have a pretty good understanding, but the journey forward is one of faith nd trust in the Lord. He had took me to possibilities that I never have though before, and now in this last “active’ lap, once about it is a journey of faith, living in the holy tension of the spirit and flesh, waiting for Him and at the same time aligning my understanding with His, in His word and prayer.
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How do you feel about people who have failed you or even sinned against you? Are you open to see how even they are important parts of your story?
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Not easy, and yes they will form important parts of my story – for it either brings the best or the worst out of me.
It will always be the faith to cancel the ‘debt’ and exercise the grace of God, and let Him lead me from there.
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What sort of people has God placed in your life? Make word sketches of both the good and the bad characteristics.
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