Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table by Louie Giglio
Week 4: Chapter 3 — Don't Let Fear Have a Seat
Read Chapter 3 of Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table. Primary Scripture: Psalm 23:4; Isaiah 41:10; 2 Timothy 1:7.
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Fear may be the Enemy's most-used weapon — this week, Giglio helps us name it, understand it, and refuse to give it the seat it constantly demands.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Giglio describes fear as one of the Enemy's primary tactics for hijacking our minds and immobilizing us. What specific fears have most powerfully "taken a seat" in your life in this season? Fear of failure, rejection, the future, illness, being found out?
2.Psalm 23:4 says "I will fear no evil, for You are with me." Notice the psalmist doesn't say "there is no evil" — the valley is real. How does acknowledging the reality of the danger while still choosing not to fear actually model a more courageous, not more naive, kind of faith?
3.Giglio draws a distinction between a healthy, reverent fear of God and the destructive, paralyzing fear the Enemy peddles. How do those two kinds of fear function differently in a person's life?