Preface

Questions to Consider

        1.  In your life, does disagreement stimulate reflection or does it create hostility? (pg.9)

        2.  How do you define friendship?

        3.  Are there matters on which it is simply unacceptable for Christians to disagree? (pg.10)

        4.  In what ways are denominational differences helpful? How might they be harmful? (pg.10)

        5.  What are the questions that drive this book?  How would you answer them? (pg.11)

        6.  If everyone really understood each other, would we get along better or worse? (pg.12)

        7.  Reflecting on the relationship between suffering and grace, has suffering ever made you more graceful

             or more jaded? (pg.13)

        8.  How might people of different ages in different walks of life display graciousness differently?  Discuss

             some different examples (at     home, at work, at school, shopping, driving, eating at a restaurant,

             traveling overseas, etc.). (pg.13)

        9.  Who do you know who has been gracious in sickness or in financial distress?

      10.  How have you been gracious to people who are suffering? (pg.13)