Appreciating What Suffering Teaches – Part 8: For Discussion and Reflection
- What is a valuable lesson you have learned through sorrow?
- Many people become bitter when suffering marks their lives. What determines a person’s response?
- Can entire congregations learn lessons during difficult times? What determines whether or not this happens?
- Nations experience revival more frequently during hard times than they do when all is going well. Why do you think this is?
- For what reasons might learning to appreciate the lessons of suffering qualify as a key survival skill?
- “Sharing in His sufferings” is a phrase that comes up several times in the New Testament. In what ways do you feel you have shared the sufferings of Christ?
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