Proverbs: Work (Smarter Living)

 

1. What did you learn most from your first job?

 

 

 

2. What would be your dream job today?

 

 

 

3. How have you balanced your work (or outside volunteer activities) with the rest of your life?

 

 

 

4. Who do you admire as someone who excels in their work?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Education (Smarter Living)

 

1. What educational experiences have stirred you on to want to learn more?

 

 

 

2. What educational experiences have turned you off to learning?

 

 

 

3. When have you studied content with which you disagree for the purpose of learning?

 

 

 

4. What are you in the process of learning currently?

 

 

 

5. What is holding you back educationally?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Stop Wandering (Smarter Living)

 

1. Describe some of your wandering off course in your past.

 

 

 

2. Do you think people are sometimes afraid of contentment? If so, why are they afraid?

 

 

 

3. Do you tend to have a more inflated view of yourself or a more deflated one?

 

 

 

4. Why is it hard to live with discomfort?

 

 

 

5. What is your place in life? (What is in your personal nest?)

 

 

 




Proverbs: Fear of The Lord (Smarter Living)

 

1. Why do you think some people like to be scared?

 

 

 

2. What is the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen? How did it make you feel?

 

 

 

3. Why do so many people seem to be bored with God?

 

 

 

4. What are some of the things that people are typically more passionate about than God?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Tattle Tales (Smarter Living)

 

1. Why are we so afraid to have people see us fail?

 

 

 

2. What do you think are the main motivations behind gossiping about the failures of others?

 

 

 

3. Who in your past taught you to hide your flaws?

 

 

 

4. Who is the safest person in your life with which you feel safe to be vulnerable?

 

 

 




Proverbs: The Power of Words (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are the top three positive things that have been said to you that you will never forget?

 

 

 

2. What are some negative things that have been said to you that you will never forget?

 

 

 

3. What is your favorite quotation?

 

 

 

4. What are some of the reasons why certain people talk a lot?

 

 

 

5. What are some of the reasons why certain people don’t talk very much?

 

 

 

6. Who will you intentionally give some positive words to this week?

 

 

 




Proverbs: The Word of God (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are some of the things that keep people from reading God’s Word?

 

 

 

2. How have you benefited personally from what you have learned from the Bible?

 

 

 

3. How has the Bible helped you find good?

 

 

 

4. What instruction from the Bible are you currently trying to implement in your life?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Pride & Humility (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are some things that you used to believe you were right about but now realize you were wrong?

 

 

 

2. What makes us want to believe we are superior to others?

 

 

 

3. Who has been an example of humility to you personally? Describe how they demonstrated humility?

 

 

 

4. Why are we so obsessed with being right and threatened by being wrong?

 

 

 

5. What is your favorite story that demonstrates the humility of Jesus?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Temptation (Smarter Living)

 

1. Why do you think we are so susceptible to temptation?

 

 

 

2. What do you think gets most people in trouble- the world, the flesh or the devil?

 

 

 

3. Are you attacked more in your areas of strength or weakness?

 

 

 

4. How does the Bible help to arm us against temptation?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Kindness and Equality (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are some of the ways people make you feel inferior?

 

 

 

2. Who has exemplified for you how to treat people as equals?

 

 

 

3. What makes people want to establish pecking orders?