Nothing to Prove by Jennie Allen
Week 11: Chapter 10 — Surrendered
Read Chapter 10 of Nothing to Prove. Key passages: Luke 22:42; Romans 12:1; Galatians 2:20.
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Allen arrives at the most demanding and most liberating word in the book: surrender — and she makes the case that it is not defeat, but the beginning of everything.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Allen uses the word 'surrender' without softening it. What connotations does that word carry for you — weakness, defeat, passivity? How does she reframe it?
2.In Gethsemane, Jesus prayed, 'Not my will, but yours be done' (Luke 22:42). Allen holds up that prayer as the template for the surrendered life. What makes it so hard to pray that prayer and actually mean it?
3.Paul writes in Romans 12:1 of offering our bodies as 'living sacrifices' — a sacrifice that stays on the altar by choice. Allen suggests that this is a daily decision, not a one-time event. What does that daily re-surrender look like in practice for you?