REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“The Wounded Game”

ICEBREAKER: War Stories

Tell us about your most painful physical injury. Don’t forget to show us your scars if you can.

OUTLINE: Healing Requirements

1. Taking a Risk

2. Taking Responsibility

3. Taking Criticism

4. Taking Advantage

TEXTS: Isaiah 61:1-3, Mark 10:46-52

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. What is your most favorite method of dealing with pain?

a. Sleep it off

b. Cry your eyes out

c. Drugs (The legal kind)

d. Suck it up and take it like a MAN. I mean a “woMAN!”

e. Pray Saints Pray!!!!

f. Watch TV and get your mind on something else

2. Can you identify at least 6 different types of wounded

people in Isaiah 61:1-3?

3. If you were to categorize your most prominent wound in

the past which type would you have fallen into?

4. When it comes to personality traits that attempt to

manipulate you with their wounded ways, which bothers

you the most?

a. Whiners

b. Fit Throwers

c. Challengers

d. Bullies

e. Blamers

f. Controllers

g. ___________

5. Mark 10:46-52 records the story of a blind man that cast

down his beggar’s garment and cried out to Jesus. His

beggar’s garment was his security blanket. What security

blanket would Jesus ask you for in order to get your miracle?

a. Your Comfort Zone

b. Your Resources

c. Your _______________

6. This blind man was criticized for crying out to Jesus. How

do you deal with criticism? (You know you’re healthy or getting healthy when you don’t have to stop and defend yourself)

7. It has been said that you are only as healthy as the habits

that hinder you. What habits most hinder you? With what wound in your life did this/these habits originate?

a. Negative thinking

b. Some form of Addiction (Candy, Fear, Drugs, Lust, Coffee, TV, Internet)

c. Procrastination, Tardiness, Laziness

d. Jealousy, Envious Rage, Getting Even

e. Making Excuses for Everything

f. Perfectionism, Driven-ness

g. Obsessive Compulsive Behavior

h. __________________________________

8. Blind Bartimeous cried out to Jesus…Thou Son of David

Have mercy on me. David means “Beloved.” Who in your

Life has loved you so unconditionally that you could cry our when you are wounded?