challenge your idea of grace? How might this help you to see trials as opportunities to grow closer to God and grow in maturity? 3. In this session you learned that Jesus would introduce his followers to difficulty and then reveal himself to them to increase their faith. What do you think about him not removing the difficulty, but instead, meeting us in the middle of the difficulty? Share your thoughts. In what ways does it feel like you have been called into a sea of trouble? Is your gaze fixed on the troubles around you or on your Savior? 4. How does this “theology of uncomfortable grace” translate into the ways you help others? How can you walk alongside others in their struggles, not with easy answers, but with grace that challenges them toward faith and maturity? 5. Suffering is often seen as something to avoid, yet Scripture teaches us that it can refine us and bring us closer to God. How might this approach shift how you view suffering? Is this perspective challenging for you? How might it help you consider your trials as opportunities to deepen your relationship with God? CONVERSATION PROMPTS FOR YOUNG WOMEN 1. What do you think the word “grace” means? How can grace be a good thing if it’s so uncomfortable at times? What might be happening in your life right now that makes you doubt the plans of God, goodness of God, and/or grace of God? How do those doubts make you feel? 2. In the past, what have you done that was both difficult and worth it? How did the difficulty highlight the feelings of joy you experienced after going through it? In what ways have you learned from the difficulties you went through in a way that you would’ve never learned if the experience had been easy instead? 3. Why do you think it’s always important to walk with God and live the Christian life in a community of other people who follow Jesus too? How do you think God’s grace can be experienced more deeply amongst other Christians than it would if you were alone and isolated from others? 4. Do you think suffering is always a bad thing? Why or why not? Can you think of an example of going through suffering that resulted in something good coming out of it? How can suffering grab your attention in ways that comfort and ease cannot? What might God be trying to teach us right now in our sufferings? 5. Explain this sentence in your own words: It’s better to be with God and suffer than to be comfortable without him. Why do you think it’s so hard to believe that? How are you personally struggling to believe that?
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