Bible Study Lesson 3 - Hope. Questions #1-7

These online questions are posted as an additional resource for the Bible study series Your Spiritual Survival Kit.  They are not required to go through the group study.  Rather, they are here to provide you with food for thought and spiritual reflection.  You are also welcome to post your own answer or reaction to each question as a comment here on this blog.  Just remember to respect the opinions and responses of others.  Blessings!

1.      Describe a time when you felt like giving up.  What got you through?

2.      Are you hopeful about the future?  What do you put your hope in?

3.      Without naming anyone, do you know a person you’d describe as “hopeless”?  If so, why do you feel that way about them?  If not, why do you think that is?

4.      What kind of false hopes do people have?

5.      How does our understanding of an afterlife affect our hope in this life?

6.     Read Romans 5:3-5.  Where does hope come from?

7.      How do your religious beliefs help you to have hope?