Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen
Week 9: Chapter 8 — I Feel Hopeless: Choose to Serve
Read Chapter 8 of Get Out of Your Head. Key Scripture: Galatians 5:13; 1 Peter 4:10–11
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In one of the most surprising moves in the book, Allen argues that when hopelessness has us turned inward, the path out is to look outward — and serve.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Allen identifies hopelessness as one of the most suffocating thought spirals — a sense that nothing will change, nothing matters, and nothing you do makes a difference. Have you been through a season of hopelessness? What did it feel like from the inside?
2.Her prescription — choose to serve — might feel like it's asking too much of someone in the depths of hopelessness. What is your honest reaction to this counsel? Does it feel like a genuine solution or an oversimplification?
3.Allen argues that hopelessness is fundamentally self-focused — it is a fixation on our own pain, our own limitations, our own stuck-ness. How does turning our attention toward serving someone else begin to break that fixation?