CHAPTER 11: Here Comes Da Judge
1) What does Sophia mean when she say knowing grows and loved expands to contain it? pg 155
2) What would that mean to the relationship between God and you?
3) How did God teach Mack to Love? How is he teaching you? pg 156
4) Why did Mack not truly believe God is good? What area in your life causes you to wonder if God is truly good to you? Be brutally honest with yourself even if you don’t answer out loud.
5) What judgment was Mack in the cave for? pg 157
6) What are your personal criteria for judging? pg 159
7) When was the last time you judged another person fairly? Unfairly? pg 160
8) What are the ways we usually judge God?
9) Was Mack’s anger with the man who killed his daughter justified? Why or why not? pg 161
10) Was the Little lady killer deserving of any compassion or forgiveness?
11) Is there a difference between Justice and forgiveness?
12) Would Mack be denying justice to Missy if he were to forgive her attacker? Explain.
13) If God is not condemning people to hell, how do so many end up going there?
14) Why couldn’t Mack chose between his children? pg 163
15) What did Mack discover about God when he pleaded to go in his children’s place?
16) What were they Judged worthy of?
17) Why was Mack ok with Jesus but still angry with God? pg 164
18) Did Missy have to die? Why did she?
19) What did Sophia mean when she said “Judgment is not about destruction, it is about setting things right”. What implications does that have for the cross?
CHAPTER 12: In The Belly of the Beasts
1) How did Mack find permission to move on?
2) How was Missy not alone in her captivity? Have you ever been alone, but not alone?
3) Why did Mack sink the second time he started to cross the lake? What is the lesson here?
4) How can a person “live loved?” pg 175
5) What did Jesus mean when he said “we’re meant to experience this life, your life, together”?
6) What was the point of the trout? Is it possible that the real Jesus wants to experience His life through us? pg 176
7) Why do people assume the worst of God when they are in pain?
8) Jesus told Mack the prior times he tried to talk to him were not a waste. Why? What does this say about how Jesus feels about us?
9) What is “the timing of grace”? How do we try to change the time table?
10) What is it to be truly human? pg 177
11) How does your picture of heaven differ from what Jesus describes to Mack?
12) How is Jesus the Pearl? What does that mean?
13) Why is the church not some place Jesus goes to on Sunday?
14) How does a person get to be part of the church Jesus is talking about? pg 178
15) Who builds Jesus’ church? How?
16) How is being with Jesus different from the well intentioned religious stuff? pg 179
17) Why would Jesus say he is not fond of religion, politics or economics?
18) What did Jesus come to give? pg 180
19) What happens when we live life apart from the REAL relationship with Jesus?
20) How are you free to love without agenda?
21) How can anyone be “in but not of” the world systems?
22) What did Jesus mean when he said ”who said anything about being a Christian? I’m not a Christian? pg 182
23) Do all roads lead to God or does God walk all roads to find his children?
24) What road are you on? Where is it going?
