Paul McDonald and Britt Mooney conclude the 3 week “Who am I?” series with Chariots of Fire. We compare the source of identity between Abrahams, who sought greatness through running, and Little, who measured greatness through following God. We must find our contentment outside ourselves and our circumstances so that, win or lose, we know who we are and experience God’s smile on our lives. Lace em up, and let’s discover God’s truth in this movie.
Questions
- What is your chance at greatness?
- Have you seized your chance at greatness, or has something snatched it from you?
- What is true greatness?
- What gifts do you have? What are you good at? How do you put them to good use?
- What do you do to prove you belong?
- Where do you experience God’s pleasure in what you do? When do you feel His smile on you?
- When you lose, what does that say about you?
- How does performance validate or invalidate you?
- Is your identity based on winning and losing?
- Where do you find success and validation in the world you live in? Schedule? Money? Kid’s behavior?
- When do you feel unmoored?
- How are you over-striding? Where should you shorten your stride to actually be able to run faster?
- Who is in your life to provide emotional or practical guidance and direction?
- How do you look at God as a spoil-sport?
- Where do you find joy and beauty in your life?
- Where do you find contentment?
- In what setting do you feel the need to justify your existence? Work? Performance? Activities?
- Where have you achieved a dream only to find that it didn’t complete you?
- Where you feel like if you had something you would be happy? What is that thing?
- Is your life telling the story that God wants it to tell? Does anything need to change?
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
