Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels
Week 9: Chapter 8 — Cooling Your Jets
Read Chapter 8 of Too Busy Not to Pray. Key passage: Psalm 46:10 ('Be still and know that I am God.').
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In one of the most personally vulnerable chapters in the book, Hybels addresses the frantic pace that keeps us from ever really being present with God — and invites us to stop.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Hybels confesses that for years his pace of life was so frantic that even when he sat down to pray, his mind was still racing at full speed. Do you recognize that pattern? What does it feel like to try to pray when you are internally still moving at 90 miles an hour?
2.The phrase 'cooling your jets' refers to the practice of deliberately slowing down before prayer — quieting the body and the mind before engaging God. What practical methods does Hybels suggest for doing this? Which one sounds most doable for your life?
3.Psalm 46:10 commands stillness — it is not a gentle invitation but an imperative. Why is stillness so countercultural today, and why do you think God connects knowing him to being still?