Pastor Chris Brooks
GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
How the Spirit Helps us to Hope
Romans 8:22-30
(Place each of these 3 groupings of questions on their own slide i.e. fight questions, then flight
etc...)
Fight Questions
1. What emotion do you fear feeling?
2. What is this emotion trying to tell you?
3. What is one way you can fight to feel the emotion you fear the most?
Flight Questions
1. What do you run to instead of God when you are afraid?
2. Who are the friends you trust to hear your fears and help you face them?
3. How will you strengthen this friendship when you are not afraid? (What do you need to do to
be a better friend?)
Freeze Questions
1. What frantic activities do you need to freeze?
2. How does the hope of the resurrection inform your relationship to fear?
3. What would change about your attitude and interactions if you truly believed God is working
all things together for good?
Three things that give you false hope
a. Thin theology of heaven
b. Thin theology of suffering
c. A compulsive need for total control
Mental Worship
1. What emotion do you fear feeling?
2. What is this emotion trying to tell you?
3. What do you run to instead of God when you are afraid?
4. Who are the friends you trust to hear your fears and help you face them?
5. How does the hope of the resurrection inform your relationship to fear?
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