I Want to Trust You, but I Don't by Lysa TerKeurst
Week 11: Chapter 10 — Building a Belief System That Can Hold
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If you've been badly hurt, your belief system about people and about God has likely taken damage — this chapter helps you rebuild it on foundations that betrayal can't erode.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Lysa describes how betrayal can shatter not just a relationship but a whole belief system — your assumptions about people, safety, the world, and God. What beliefs in your own life have been shaken or shattered by what you've experienced?
2.She argues that the goal isn't to put the old belief system back together exactly as it was, but to rebuild something stronger and more grounded. Why would putting it back together exactly as it was actually be a mistake?
3.The chapter focuses on what an actually stable belief system looks like — one not dependent on other people behaving well or circumstances going right. What are its foundations, according to Lysa? Which of those foundations feels most solid to you right now, and which feels most shaky?
a.What is one belief about yourself that you want to be true regardless of whether someone else affirms it?
b.What is one belief about God that you want to anchor your life to, regardless of how your circumstances unfold?
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