Cornerstone Church - Bowie, MD.

Discovery Questions When Reading a Story:
1. What do you learn about God?
2. What do you learn about people?
3. What truth do you see?
4. Do you see Satan or evil in the story? If so, what do you learn about him?
5. Which character do you identify with in the story and why?
6. What needs to change in your life after reading this story? (How should we respond?)

“This account declares that if anything positive happens in the lives of the people of God it is by his grace, and not on account of merit.” ~Daniel Block

“When the text condemns Israel for not remembering Yahweh, it’s not suggesting they forgot His identity or all the enemies He’d rescued them from. It means that what they knew of Yahweh exercised no control over them, held no grip on their loyalties. They could still answer questions about Yahweh but that factual knowledge did not determine their commitment. Whatever factual, intellectual information about Yahweh they retained did not keep them from adopting Baal-berith as their god.” ~Dale Ralph Davis

“Sometimes God’s judgment is like that; it works so silently and unobserved. We need to beware of thinking that God avenges only when he makes a racket.” ~Dale Ralph Davis

“Our hope does not rest in the sincerity of our repentance but in the intensity of Yahweh’s compassion.” ~Dale Ralph Davis

Discovery Questions When Reading a Story:
1. What do you learn about God?
2. What do you learn about people?
3. What truth do you see?

“That is the deepest problem with sin: it is a suicidal exchange of infinite value and beauty for some fleeting, inferior substitute. This is the great insult." ~John Piper

4. Do you see Satan or evil in the story? If so, what do you learn about him?
5. Which character do you identify with in the story and why?
6. What needs to change in your life after reading this story? (How should we respond?)