Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
Week 6: Ron's Reckoning — Facing His Own Failures
Read the chapters in which Ron confronts his own moral failures, particularly his marital unfaithfulness, and the process of restoration with Deborah (approximately Chapters 33–38).
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It is easier to serve at a homeless shelter than to face the wreckage you've made of your own home. These chapters ask Ron — and us — to turn the same honest gaze inward.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Ron is candid about his affair and the way his infidelity had damaged his marriage. What makes him tell this part of the story, and what does including it add to the book's honesty and credibility?
2.How does Deborah respond to Ron's failures — both in the immediate aftermath and in the long process of rebuilding? What does her response cost her, and what does it demonstrate about the nature of forgiveness?
3.There is a painful irony in the fact that Ron was reaching out to help the broken and poor at the Mission while his own family was broken by his choices. How do you sit with that tension? Is it possible to serve others while actively avoiding your own sin — and for how long?
a.Have you ever used service or busyness as a way of avoiding something you needed to face at home?
b.What does it say about God's grace that he can use even a flawed, compartmentalized person as an instrument of blessing for others?
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