Crazy Love Chapter 3 Homework

Thank you to all that showed up. I think that we're having some wonderful, thought provoking discussion and encourage each of you to keep asking the tough questions.


Here's the homework for this week.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or thoughts on them.

See you next Thursday!

Homework:

1) Answer the student’s question: “Why would a loving God force me to love Him? God threatens us with hell and punishment if I don’t begin a relationship with Him?"

2) Read Matthew 22:37-38
³⁷And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment.

One day, write down 2-3 things that you will do that day if you loved the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. At the end of the day, write down how you felt as you were doing them.

3) Write down a short list of Christian goals that you feel guilty about when you don’t complete them (start each day with a prayer, read 5 chapters from the Bible each day, serve in the church 2 hours a week, etc.) Write down the contrasting view of how someone who loves God with all their heart, soul, and mind would respond. How would they react if they didn’t complete the goal? Would they have agreed with the reason for setting goal to begin with?

4) Look at last week’s prayer life and compare it to what you thought it “should” have looked like.

5) Write down what you believe your prayer life should look like for this coming week.

6) At the beginning of one day, plan out your schedule. Then ask God how He wants to be glorified in each activity. At the end of the day, evaluate how you did. Then during your evening prayer, ask God to evaluate how you did.

7) Spend 30 seconds at the beginning of each prayer listening to God.

8) Watch the videos for Chapter 4.