Discussion Questions

• Share about a time when a hardship or trial resulted in a deepening of your faith.

• How do unbelievers that you know attempt to make it through painful circumstances? What do they trust in?

• Why can we count it joy when we experience hardship?

• How does knowing that God has a purpose for your hardship provide you with endurance to persevere through it?

• Why is the promise of wisdom a greater gift than the removal of the trial?

• How has the coronavirus exposed some of the things that you have trusted in?

• How do trials and hardships reveal God’s love for us?

• What role does a community of believers play in helping you gain wisdom and endure through trials?

• Spend some time as praying that God will use the trial of COVID-19 to deepen your faith and mature you in Christ.