The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee
Week 12: Chapter 11 — The Holy Spirit: Our Resource for Change
Read Chapter 11 (and any concluding chapters) of The Search for Significance. Key Scripture: John 14:16-17; Galatians 5:16-25; Philippians 2:13.
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We close the main content of the book by asking the most important practical question: given everything we now understand about the false beliefs and the gospel truths, how does lasting change actually happen, and what is our part versus God's part?
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.McGee is clear that the process of renewal he has described throughout the book is not a self-help program — it is inherently a work of the Holy Spirit. Why is this distinction important? What goes wrong when we approach the renewal of our minds as a purely human discipline?
2.John 14:16-17 records Jesus promising the Holy Spirit as a "Counselor" or "Helper" who will be with us forever. How does this image of the Spirit specifically as a Counselor connect to the work this book calls us to do? What does it mean that we have a Counselor who knows our false beliefs better than we do?
3.Galatians 5 describes the fruit of the Spirit — love, joy, peace, patience, and so on. McGee would note that many of these fruits are exactly what we have been lacking when we live under the false beliefs: we lack peace because of the performance trap, joy because of the approval trap. How does the Spirit's work specifically address the emotional deficits created by the false beliefs?
a.Which fruit of the Spirit do you most desperately need more of in your life right now?
b.How does that connect to the specific false belief that has most gripped you?
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