Point One: Embrace Everything for What It’s Worth

Point Two: Embrace Our Limitations

Discussion Questions:

Watch the past message, then choose questions to get your group thinking and create openness.

  1. What was something that stood out to you from this past Sunday’s message? Share what you learned and how it will impact your life.

  2. Read Ecclesiastes 7:1-14. Ecclesiastes 7:1 states that a good name is better than precious ointment. What does this teach us about character, legacy, and what truly matters before God?

  3. Read Ecclesiastes 7:1-14. Why does this passage say that the day of death can be better than the day of birth, and how does this challenge a surface-level view of success and blessing?

  4. Read Ecclesiastes 7:2-4. What do these verses, which encourage going to the house of mourning, teach us about the wisdom that joy alone cannot provide?

  5. Read Ecclesiastes 7:5. How does this verse, stating that it is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than the song of fools, shape a biblical perspective on correction and humility?

  6. Read Proverbs 27:6. How does this deepen our understanding of Ecclesiastes 7:5 and highlight the value of loving correction?

  7. Read Ecclesiastes 7:8. This verse claims that the end of a thing is better than its beginning. How does this truth encourage patience when God’s work in us feels unfinished?

  8. Read James 1:2-4. How do these verses and Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 challenge us to trust God during both straight and crooked days, believing that He remains wise and purposeful in each?

  9. Where in your life do you most need to welcome correction, grief, or delay as tools that God uses to shape your heart?

  10. What is one practical way you can pursue "better" wisdom this week by valuing what lasts over what merely feels good in the moment?

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