The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp
Week 3: Chapter 2 — The Broken Way into Abundance
Read Chapter 2 of The Broken Way. Key passages: John 10:10; 2 Corinthians 9:6–8.
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This chapter presses into the paradox at the heart of the book: that the road into the more — more meaning, more intimacy, more God — runs directly through the less, the cracked, the surrendered.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Voskamp argues that most of us are living for an abundance that is really just accumulation — more stuff, more comfort, more control — rather than the genuine abundance Jesus promised in John 10:10. What is the difference between those two kinds of 'more'? Which one are you more often chasing?
2.She reflects on her own childhood wounds — a sister killed in a farm accident, a father's grief, a mother's silence — and how those early fractures shaped her sense of self and her relationship with God. How have the fractures of your own story shaped how you see yourself and how you see God?
3.Voskamp introduces the idea that brokenness can either harden us into self-protection or soften us into self-giving — and that the direction it takes depends largely on where we bring it. Where do you tend to bring your pain? To God? To trusted people? To distractions? To no one?