Discussion questions for Life Groups based on the Sunday sermon.
(Updated weekly)
May 4, 2025
*** This guide may have more questions than your group could reasonably discuss in one meeting. Feel free to pick and choose questions that best encourage, challenge, and instruct your particular participants.
Read Job 1:1
1. Job can be a difficult book to read and understand. How do you find meaning and relevance in Old Testament literature?
2. How is having a right view of the Sovereignty of God comforting to us as believers? Do you spend time thinking and meditating on God’s attributes? How does this affect your prayers, actions and daily life?
3. Can you think of a specific time you are willing to share, when life was hard and you questioned or relied on God’s sovereignty and goodness? What was the outcome and in retrospect do you see God’s hand working even in that situation?
4. Does it ever trouble you that sometimes we never know the answers to the questions we have during times of suffering? How do you handle that? Is knowing that God is sovereign comfort you during those times?
5. People, especially non-believers, question the presence of evil in the world as a response to the existence of God. How do we answer this question? Discuss in the group a good response to the answer of evil and suffering.
6. Has Job been a difficult book for you to digest in the past? Why? What other books of the Bible do you find particularly difficult? Why?
7. Suffering and mystery are opportunities to trust God. Share a personal example from your life that proves this idea. Discuss how to do this in practical ways.
8. Suffering and mystery are opportunities to worship God. Share a personal example from your life that proves this idea. Discuss how to do this in practical ways.
9. Suffering and mystery are opportunities to know God. Share a personal example from your life that proves this idea. Discuss how to do this in practical ways.
10. Suffering and mystery are opportunities to grow spiritually. Share a personal example from your life that proves this idea. Discuss how to do this in practical ways.
11. Suffering and mystery are opportunities to be good friends. Share a personal example from your life that proves this idea. Discuss how to do this in practical ways.
