The New Eve - Lewis Robert [85]
1. Look over the list provided in this chapter of problems women say they struggle with. Which ones did you circle that personally apply to your life? Explain. Can you spot a common theme to the problems you've circled? If so, what is it?
2. This chapter focuses on five major issues swirling around the lives of women today. How would you rank them in order of importance and impact on your life, with 1 being most important and 5 being least important?
_____ An ever-evolving femininity
_____ A new supreme pursuit
_____ The challenge of motherhood
_____ Successfully engaging a man
_____ The maze of unlimited choices
Tell why you ranked these issues the way you did. Do the common problems you discerned for your life from question #1 fit into one of the five issues?
3. As you look over these five major issues, what important questions do they raise for you personally that you would pay money to have answered?
4. Where are you on the “swinging social pendulum” of evolving femininity? Are you still in a traditional role? The do-it-all role? The sameness role? Role reversal? Explain. What role would you design for yourself if you could do so right now?
5. Looking back, have you been disappointed with some of your choices in life? Which one stands out? What led you to believe at the time this choice was a good one? What could have helped you to make a better decision, knowing what you know now?
6. What was your greatest personal insight from this chapter? Explain.
7. What is one thing you would like the other women in the group to pray with you about?
Post-discussion Takeaways
Now that you have read this chapter and had your discussion time, what personal applications (new beliefs, priorities, behaviors, ways of thinking, etc.) will you leave with? Take a few minutes and record them in the space below.
Session 3
Discussion Questions
Chapters 4 and 5
Writing out your initial answers to these questions before your small-group meeting will enhance the quality of your discussions. Take a moment to record your answers.
1. Chapters 4 and 5 assume that the Genesis account of creation is foundational to understanding God's timeless design for gender. Is that your assumption? Why or why not? How much weight do you give Genesis in shaping your life as a woman? A little? A lot? None? Not sure? Pick one and tell why.
2. In reading about the core callings of every woman in chapter 4, did you feel excited, disturbed, relieved, challenged, or something else? Share your thoughts with the group.
3. What conclusions is Genesis drawing for you concerning the purpose of your life as a woman? The priorities of your life as a woman? The kind of freedom you have as a woman? The way to go about making choices as a woman? Take some time on this question.
4. Which direction of life is most impacting you right now: living from the outside in or living from the inside out? Explain your answer.
5. If you took the bold move of living from the inside out more seriously, how would it alter your life as a woman? In what specific ways? What would hold you back from taking that step? Explain.
6. What important warnings does the life of Eve offer modern women today? Share as a group as many as you can.
7. What impacted you the most from these two chapters and this discussion? What questions or concerns do you still have?
Post-discussion Takeaways
Now that you have read these chapters and had your discussion time, what personal applications (new beliefs, priorities, behaviors, ways of thinking, etc.) will you leave with? Take a few minutes and record them in the space below.
Session 4
Discussion Questions
Chapters 6
Writing out your initial answers to these questions before your small-group meeting will enhance the quality of your discussions. Take a moment to record your answers.
1. This chapter begins with the statement “Vision energizes life.” Before this study began, what vision of womanhood (if any) has been calling your life forward? Can you describe