Job Overview
Job 1:8-11
Prentice Park, Lead Pastor, Bethany West Seattle
1. Upsetting the Equilibrium
2. Analyzing conflict (cultural commentary)
3. Hint to Resolution (reveral)
4. Experiencing the Gospel?
5. Envisioning the future/Practices
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Discussion Questions
Before questions, attempt to give the group a bit of a summary of the main points of the sermon and then choose a few questions that fit your group’s needs and style. We don’t intend for you to use all of these. Three to five questions may be a good number.
Begin by reading Job 1:8-11 aloud, taking turns reading the passages.
Pray over the group before beginning discussion.
1. What has been your understanding of how to understand the book of Job in the past?
a. Did Prentice’s overview change how you thought about it?
2. Is there a situation in which you find yourself trying to find the why behind your suffering in order to better control it?
3. Do you ever find yourself following God just to receive blessings from Him?
4. Have you ever experienced a time when unexplained suffering changed your view of God, either in a positive or negative way?
5. Job’s friends told him that he was suffering because of sin in his life and urged him to repent. Has there ever been a time in your life when you were suffering and those around you tried to give you a “quick fix” for your situation?
a. What did you actually need from them in that situation?
6. What would it take for you to truly be able to trust God with the ending to your story?
7. When suffering comes, do you find yourself reacting more like Job or like his friends?
8. What faithful experiences have you had in your life to help remind you that God is a trustworthy God?
9. Do you have a need for control in a situation that you need to surrender to God today? Take a moment to hold out your hands in an open position to posture yourself to surrender those things to God.