You're Not The Boss Of Me: Hurt To Hope

1. What’s the most ridiculous or embarrassing way you’ve ever gotten hurt? (walking into a glass door, tripping over nothing, slipping on a wet floor, etc.)

2. Which part of the Strangler Fig illustration stuck with you the most?

3. Garry shared the Wound → Agree → Vow cycle. Can you think of a time when that cycle played out in your own life?

4. Proverbs 18:14 says, The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? What does that verse mean to you personally? Why do you think emotional wounds can be harder to deal with than physical ones?

5. In the message we heard how Kintsugi is the Japanese art form where cracks in pottery are filled with gold to highlight and not hide them. Why do you think God chooses not to erase our cracks but to redeem them? How could your story, even the painful parts, become something beautiful in someone else’s life?

6. What identity statements from Scripture (like being God’s child, masterpiece, friend) do you need to lean into more right now?