Leading on Empty by Wayne Cordeiro

Week 11: Review & Reflection — Looking Back, Moving Forward

Review your notes, journal entries, and underlined passages from all chapters of Leading on Empty.

A book is only as valuable as what we do with it. This final week is an invitation to consolidate what you have learned, name what has changed, and commit to what comes next.

Discussion Questions

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1.Which single chapter or concept from *Leading on Empty* was most personally impactful for you, and why? Was it what you expected when you began the book?

2.At the beginning of this study, where would you have placed yourself on Cordeiro's gas gauge — Full, Half, Low, or Empty? Where would you place yourself now, and what has changed?

3.Cordeiro's book challenges several common assumptions in ministry and high-capacity leadership — that busyness equals faithfulness, that rest is weakness, that success is measured by results. Which of these assumptions had the deepest root in your life? How has it been shaken?

4.What is one concrete, specific change you have already made — or committed to making — as a result of reading this book? Be as specific as possible: not "I'll rest more" but "I am blocking every Friday afternoon as Sabbath time." Name it here and share it with someone who will ask you about it.

5.Have you shared anything from this book with someone else — a colleague, a spouse, a board member, a mentor? If so, what was their response? If not, who is one person who needs to read this book or hear its message, and how could you pass it along?

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Closing Prayer

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Father, thank you for the gift of this book and for the courage of a man willing to tell the truth about his own emptiness so that others might not lose their way. Thank you for every honest conversation this study has prompted, every lie it has exposed, and every step toward renewal it has inspired. We leave this study not with a completed project but with a direction — toward you, toward rest, toward the sustainable life you designed for us. Hold us to the commitments we have made. Remind us of them when the urgent crowds back in. And when we find ourselves running on empty again, lead us — as you led Elijah — to the food, the rest, and the still small voice that restores. In the name of Jesus, who is our rest. Amen.

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