The Case for Faith Study Guide by Lee Strobel

Author:Lee Strobel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

3. How have difficulties, challenges, and even pain shaped your character and values? How are you different today as a result of the problems you’ve faced in life? Can you ever imagine thanking God someday for how suffering has molded you? Why or why not?

[Your Response]

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis

4. Joni Eareckson Tada believes that everything God puts his hand to is done with brilliant intention. She says that we can rest assured that although the purposes for suffering might be hidden from us in this present life, God’s reasons are always wise, specific, and good. Which points of Tada’s do you agree with? Which points do you disagree with? How does one ever come to the place where he or she can trust God so completely? Can you imagine trusting God to this extent?

[Your Response]

THINK ABOUT THIS!

What I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

1 Corinthians 15:3 – 4

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

1 Peter 3:18

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

“God has demonstrated how the very worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the world ended up resulting in the very best thing that has ever happened in the history of the world. At the time, nobody saw how anything good could ever result from this tragedy — the death of God himself on the cross. And yet God foresaw that the result would be the opening of heaven to human beings. So the worst tragedy in history brought about the most glorious event in history. And if it happened there — if the ultimate evil can result in the ultimate good — it can happen elsewhere, even in our own individual lives. Here, God lifts the curtain and lets us see it. Elsewhere he simply says, ‘Trust me.’ ”

Peter Kreeft

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