More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell

Week 11: Review & Reflection

Review your notes, journal entries, and any underlined passages from More Than a Carpenter.

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You have worked through one of the most widely read apologetics books ever written — now is the time to step back, take stock of what has changed, and consider what comes next.

Discussion Questions

8 questions

1.Looking back across the whole book, which chapter or argument had the greatest impact on you — intellectually, spiritually, or personally? What made it land so powerfully?

2.McDowell's book is organized around a single driving question: Who is Jesus, really? How has your answer to that question shifted, deepened, or become more complicated over the past ten weeks?

3.The Lord/Liar/Lunatic trilemma from Chapter 3 is the book's most famous contribution. Having now seen how McDowell fills in the historical, textual, and experiential evidence around it, do you find the trilemma more or less persuasive than you did in Week 3? Why?

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