Book Studies

  • Enjoying the Presence of God by Jan Johnson, from fall of 2010
  • The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller, from spring of 2010
  • How People Change by Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp, from fall of 2008
  • When People are Big and God is Small by Edward Welch, from fall of 2007
  • The Peacemaker by Ken Sande, from fall of 2006

9/14/08

How People Change, Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – The Gospel Gap

1. According to II Peter 1, why are Christians ineffective and unproductive? What is the solution?
2. What does the author mean by ‘gospel gap’? (p. 2-4).
3. Talk about how the gap produces three kinds of blindness and how these can be resolved (p. 4-6).
4. List and briefly describe the Christian “isms” that tend to fill the gospel gap (p. 7-10).
5. Which of these ‘isms’ is the easiest for you to stumble into?
6. What are some of the reasons behind our fall into the “isms”? (p. 11-12).
7. The author proposes five Gospel perspectives that bridge the gap between what we say we believe and how we actually live on a daily basis. What are they? (p. 13-16).
8. What were the most significant points in this chapter for you?
9. Action Points: (What are you specifically going to do?)

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