Description

In week 3 of the summer blockbuster series, Paul McDonald and Britt Mooney tackle their first animated film, Shrek.  We look at how we often feel like Shrek, expecting people to run away if they really knew our true self.  Or maybe we relate to the Princess, getting frustrated because things don't look like we think they should.  In reality, our goal should be to emulate the hero of the movie, Donkey, by showing love, acceptance, and forgiveness to those around us. Join us as we discover our stories in this movie.

Questions

• How do we get past the image culture we live in?
  
• Crisis/conflict questions: What’s behind that? What am I saying about myself? What do I think is true in this moment? Why am I reacting like this?
  
• Where has misunderstanding caused you division and conflict?  What happened when the truth was revealed?
  
• Where do you need to receive/accept forgiveness from someone?
  
• Who is someone you might need to forgive?
  
• What do you call hideous that God would call beautiful?
  
• If you had the perfect life, would you know it?
  
• What is failure?  What does that look like?
  
• What is success?  What does that look like?
  
• What does your happy ending look like?  Perfect job? Perfect kids? Perfect marriage?  What if you had it and didn’t know it?
  
• What life are you trying to manufacture?  Job? Marriage? Kids? Ministry? Relationships?
  

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