Description

Paul McDonald and Matt Gleaves enter the virtual reality of Ready Player One.  Reality can be kind of a bummer—where do you go to escape?  In this fast-paced, pressurized life we live, what would it be like to unplug and slow down?  In spite of the discomfort, we tend to sit the fence and chase comfort and stability—what would it be like to go all-in?  Strap on your goggles, get on your omnidirectional treadmill, and let’s discover God’s truth in this movie.

Questions

• Where do you go to escape, to find our own piece of heaven in this life?
• Where does life feel dry? Weary? Like it sucks? What makes you feel better?
• Where do you look at life and “winning” for what it can do for you?
• Where are you being asked/invited to go “all-in”?
• How much of your Christian life is sin management/behavior management?
• How can you develop a deeper walk and relationship with God so that you don’t even want to escape anymore?
• Where are you tired of shame and guilt and sin and want to stand up and fight?
• Where do you feel like life dealt you a shitty hand?
• What are you in bondage to? What behavior or reaction do you hate that you can’t seem to escape?
• What would it be like to slow down?
• How do you respond when the enemy offers a way out?
• What would it take to go all in?

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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