Dealing with Your Inner Grinch
Christmas at the Movies 2023
Discussion questions to help you unpack the message with others.
- What’s your favorite Grinch adaptation? Why?
- What stood out to you most from the video message?
- In what ways do you think your heart reflects the heart of the Grinch?
- How do you typically cope with or respond to the thoughts and feelings that come with feeling grinchy?
- What’s a way you’ve tried to fix your own grinchy heart? How did it go?
- In what ways do you find it difficult to let God into your hurt and your mess?
- Where do you see God drawing you in or calling out to you in your life?
- What’s one way you can reignite (or spark) your curiosity about God this week?
Prayer
Let’s end with prayer. You can say something like, “God, thank you for being curious about us. For pursuing us. For softening our hardened hearts. Thank you for replacing our broken source with your complete one, bit by bit. Ignite in us the same kind of curiosity and love for you. Amen.”
Bonus Questions
Check these out if you’re on a roll and want to go a little deeper.
- What’s a piece of your heart that you know is just hard? What hardened it? What do you think it would take to soften it?
- How would your life or your relationships look different if the icy pieces of your heart started to melt?
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