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4. “ The point isn’t how big of a role we can play but how well we play the role we are given”( p. 27)
Describe your current job or a job you had in the past.
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The Giver
Bookstudy
Getting to Know You:
1. What was your favorite Christmas? And what was your favorite Christmas gift?
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“WORKING WITH PURPOSE”
JANE KISE AND DAVID STARK
1. “Because work is such an enormous part of our lives, and because businesses hold so much influence over us, individual change will not be enough. In fact, what we do in the other arenas of our lives will scarcely matter if we do not also have an impact on corporations, for the largest multinationals have far more influence on political, environmental, social, and economic issues than any government. Corporations are now the most powerful organizations in the world.” (P.15)
Discuss this passage from the book.
2. “ The point isn’t how big of a role we can play but how well we play the role we are given”( p. 27)
Describe your current job or a job you had in the past.
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Discussion Question:
In the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt called for "Bold persistent experimentation", as he put it, "It is common sense to make a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and then try another, but above all, try something." (page 23) What is your reaction to this statement? Do you feel he was a good leader?
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When is a moment of faith?
What event in your life signifies faith for you?
How would you measure faith in terms of time? Monthly? Daily? Yearly? Occasionally?
A date that is seeped in faith is 9/11/2001. It is seeped in a variety of faiths from the men who crashed the planes calling to Allah to the people who jumped to their death from those same buildings. There was the faith of the firefighters who rushed into the twin towers, and there was the backwash of faith that flooded America the week the towers crumbled.
Is faith something we grab hold of only in times of trouble like 9/11 or is faith a part of our daily lives? Many faith moments are centered in events like our marriage, the baptism of a child, or a funeral. Some faith moments are centered around religious practice such as corporate worship, prayer, meditation, Holy Communion, fasting or coming of age religious ceremonies. Some faith moments are when we are all alone, like hiking in the woods.. Some faith moments are when we with a large group of people, like a Billy Graham Crusade.
What is your faith story and when has it unfolded in your life?
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Who embodies faith for you?
Who provides a living example of faith in your life?
Who is faith to you?
These are all slightly different questions. I am reading “Eat, Love, Pray” by Elizabeth Gilbert and faith for the main character presents itself in a voice that tells her to go to bed after she is crying on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night. She goes on to discuss this “god” she has found and talks about the vast array of terms mankind uses to refer to God. For her God could have been Jehovah, Allah, Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu or Zeus. God could have been “that” from the Sanskrit scriptures. But, she needs a proper name to sense a personal attendance. So she refer’s to God as God. For a better taste of this read page 13 in the book.
She is on a journey of faith and as I read the book I realize she went on a literal journey as well.
In “Speaking of Faith” Krista Tippett discusses her grandfather, Reverend C. T. Perkins who provided her with an important living example of faith. She tells a story of when she visited her Grandfather on the farm she was in a shed with a large snake. Her grandfather came to her rescue and dragged the snake with a hoe out in the back yard. He held it aloft and looked it in the eye. She always had that image from childhood of the preacher and the serpent, salvation and damnation embodied and facing off. Read more about it on pages 29-33
In the “Complete Idiot’s Guide to Faith” (CIGF) the person who embodies faith is Noah. We have these great stories of people of faith in the Bible. Most people know the story of Noah and the flood. There are several current movies that have told the tale in various forms. The story in the Bible is in Genesis 6:5-9:17. CIGF states that the Bible moves fairly quick from Noah walking with God to a completed ark. However, the ark was 450- feet long, 75 feet wide and 45-feet high, and taken years maybe decades to build. It is described as the world biggest word working project by CIGF, it probably didn’t feel much like faith at the time.(p. 36-37) But Walter Brueggemann states in Interpretation Genesis that “Noah is a model of faith such as has not yet appeared in biblical narrative. It is ironic that at the moment of pathos and impending death, embodied faith first appears in the world. The narrative announces a minority view. Faithfulness is possible even in the world.” P. 80
So who is faith ?
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