This Week In Recovery Lesson
The focus of this week’s lesson centers on the fundamental MEdom problem: my addiction to me. Please read the FFMP Series article “Addicted to Me“.
“For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.” James 3:16 (NLT)
“What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.” James 4:1-3 (NLT)
“Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.” James 1:14-15 (NLT)
- Having read “Addicted to Me”, how would you define ‘selfish ambition’?
- How does selfish ambition lead to self-centered behavior?
- Since God created us, what happened? Were we created imperfect? Were we created to sin? Explain.
- Jesus said that we are slaves—addicted—to sin (John 8:34), meaning that sin is our master controlling us. How would you explain this? How is sin addiction true in your life?
- How has self-centered sin impacted your life over the years?
- How would you describe addictive thinking?
- How would you describe addictive behavior?
- How has self-centered sin in your life manifest into addictive thinking and behavior?
- How has addictive thinking and behavior detoured your course in life?
Your answers to these 9 questions have prepared you to take on the TWRAC challenge for this week. Click here for TWRAC 004.
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