The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Appendix 1:

DISCUSSION

QUESTIONS

In addition to the questions at the end of each chapter, you can use
these discussion questions in your small group or Sunday school class
setting.

What on Earth Am I Here For?

• What do you think are implications of the first sentence of this
  book, “It’s not about you”?


• What do you feel most people’s lives are driven by? What has been
  the driving force in your life?


• Up to this point, what image or metaphor has best described your
  life? A race, a circus, something else?


• If everyone understood that life on earth is really preparation for
  eternity,how would we act differently?


• What do people get attached to on earth that keeps them from
  living for God’s purposes?


• What have you been attached to that could keep you from living
  for God’s purposes?

You Were Planned for God’s Pleasure

• How is “living your whole life for God’s pleasure”different from the
  way most people understand “worship”?


• How is a friendship with God similar to any other friendship, and
  how is it different?


• Share something you learned from a time when God seemed
  distant.


• Which is easier for you—public or private worship? In which do
  you usually feel closer to God?


• When is it appropriate to express anger to God?


• What fears surface when you think of surrendering your complete
  life to Christ?

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