Call out to your god

Personal Reflection/Study Questions:

– Use Scripture to support your answers.
1. Buddha’s last words were, “Strive without ceasing.” This seems similar to the Apostle Paul’s words to us in 1 Corinthians 9:24, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” How are they, in fact, very different?

2. Describe the greater context surrounding each command.

Discussion Questions:

1. In the chaos of the storm, the sailors went reaching for whatever help they could find. How have you experienced this sort of desperate reaching for something outside of yourself in a time of need?

2. What does it mean to you that everyone practices a form of religion?

3. Read Romans 8:28. If this is true, and we are in Christ, what do we think about the crisis riddled stories that brought us to where we are now?

4. What happens when faith and self-reliance are working at the same time in your life?

5. Jesus’ final words from the cross were, “it is finished.” What does that mean to us?

6. Contrast Jesus’ final words with that of Buddha, “Strive without ceasing.” What about Jesus’ words give you confidence and assurance that Buddha’s cannot?

7. If it truly is finished, how does that enable us to live a life of obedience to God?