The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Week 3 | The Solution | Hint: the solution isn’t more time

 
 

READ CHAPTER 4: p61

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REFLECT | 'What is going on in our life right now?’

Discuss

  • Did you manage to implement the ONE THING you said you were going to do differently this week? Why/Why not? (Not supposed to be condemning, just an acknowledgement)

  • John Mark Comer reflects that he often catches himself saying ‘I wish there were ten more hours in a day.’ Do you often wish that you had more time?

ENGAGE | ‘How do we engage with what God is saying to us?

Discuss

  • John Mark Comer raises the question regarding our limitations (limitations being not just temporal but emotional, social, economic and more)

    • What if these limitations aren’t something to fight but to gratefully accept as a signpost to God’s call on our souls?

    • What do you think about Peter Sazzero’s comment, ‘We find God’s will for our lives in our limitations.’

  • What does Henry David Thoreau mean when he says that we should 'live deliberately’

  • What are your thoughts on Paul (Eph5v15-16, ESv)when he writes

    • look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of time, because the days are evil.

INSPIRE | - 'How do we inspire each other to ‘TRY’ something this week? What opportunities are in front of us, that we can choose to explore?’

Discuss

  • What ONE thing am I going to take the opportunity to ‘TRY’ this week?

Go Deeper

To reflect on this week

  • ‘Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.’ John Ortberg

  • Jesus said ‘What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?’ (Mark 8 v 36, msg)

  • When we hurry are we running

    • from something

      • father wounds, childhood trauma, last names, deep insecurity or deficits of self-worth, fear of failure, pathological inability to accept the limitations of our humanity, or simply boredom with the mundanity of middle life.

    • to something

      • promotions or purchases or experiences or stamps on a passport or the next high, a sense of sense of self worth, love, acceptance

  • How do you relate to Anne Lamott’s quote when she humorously pointed out. ‘No’ is a complete sentence? What is your relationship with the word ‘no’?