True Contentment

Community Group Discussion Questions

  1. What does it mean to have Christian contentment?
  2. What are some unhelpful understandings of contentment?
  3. What are the dangers of riches?
  4. How can we protect ourselves from building an unhealthy reliance upon riches?
  5. Fr. Graham said "You can buy a bed, but you cannot buy a good night's rest." What does this mean? What are some other ways of saying this same idea? Do you have any examples from your life of this concept?
  6. True contentment is not material, but __? (A: relational). How does Jesus bring contentment into your life?
  7. In what ways are we called to be discontent in relationship to justice and the poor?