The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp
Week 1: Introduction — The Broken Way Begins
Read the Preface and Introduction of The Broken Way. Key passages: John 6:11 (Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it); 2 Corinthians 4:7–10.
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Before the argument of the book begins, Voskamp invites us into her own wound — and asks whether we might be willing to look honestly at ours.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Voskamp opens by describing a scar on her wrist — a mark of years of secret self-harm — and her struggle to believe that broken things can be beautiful or useful. What was your immediate emotional response to that kind of raw honesty from an author? What does it make you expect from the rest of the book?
2.She introduces the central metaphor of eucharist: bread that is taken, blessed, broken, and given. Why do you think she chooses this image as the organizing picture for the whole book? What does it suggest about the relationship between brokenness and gift?
3.Voskamp asks early on whether there is a way to live that is larger than our pain — a way through, rather than around, suffering. Where have you personally tried to go around pain rather than through it? What happened?
a.What strategies do you most commonly use to avoid feeling broken?
b.What has that avoidance cost you?
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