Description

This week on the MATM podcast, we welcome the heptapods in Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker. We discuss the power of language and the importance of communication. The conversations we immerse ourselves will reshape and rewire our minds. And we see that we have to give, open, and risk in order to win the thing we most long for—connection. Say yes to the invitation, and let’s discover God’s truth in this movie.

Questions

• How can we know God if we don’t get face-to-face? How do you get face-to-face with God?
• What language and conversation do you immerse yourself in? How does it shape your perspectives?
• How have you been misunderstood?
• How have you misunderstood others?
  
  Where has that misunderstanding caused problems?
• What language/conversations do you immerse yourself in?
• What conversations do you have with yourself? Others? God? How does this shape your thinking?
• Where have you risked in the past? What did you lose? What did you gain?
• Where have you hidden in fear, guarding what you were afraid to lose? What did it cost you? What did you save?
• How is life is a non-zero sum game?

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Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (https://graysonfoster.com/)

Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).

Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock