The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken
Week 2: Part One — Answering the Call (Somalia and the Seed of Doubt)
Read Part One of The Insanity of God (the Ripkens' call to and arrival in Somalia). Key passage: Isaiah 6:8; Luke 9:23-24.
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Nik and Ruth Ripken arrive in Somalia full of faith and readiness to serve — and almost immediately, the world they thought they understood begins to unravel.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Nik describes how he and Ruth responded to what they felt was a clear call to serve in one of the most dangerous, least-reached places on earth. What does their willingness to go reveal about how they understood the call of God at that stage in their lives?
2.Somalia in the early 1990s was a landscape of starvation, civil war, and collapsed infrastructure. Nik and Ruth quickly found that the problems they faced were far larger than anything their training had prepared them for. When has a situation in your own life turned out to be far harder than you anticipated — and how did that affect your faith?
3.Nik describes watching people die in enormous numbers despite every effort to help, and beginning to wonder whether their presence was making any real difference. Have you ever felt that your efforts for God were futile? What did you do with that feeling?
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