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1.Chris Fabry wastes no time establishing the outward appearance of the Jordan family: a beautiful home, successful careers, an impressive lifestyle. What details in these early chapters signal to you that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface?
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War Room by Chris Fabry is the novelization of the 2015 Kendrick Brothers film of the same name. It follows the Jordan family — Tony and Elizabeth, whose marriage is quietly unraveling — and Miss Clara, an elderly widow who becomes Elizabeth's unlikely mentor. At the heart of the story is a simple but radical idea: the most powerful thing a person can do for their family, their marriage, and their own soul is to fight for them on their knees. Miss Clara's famous "war room" — a small prayer closet filled with handwritten requests, Scripture verses, and decades of faithful intercession — becomes the central image of the book. The novel argues that the real battle in marriage and family life is not against flesh and blood (a spouse, a boss, a circumstance), but against spiritual forces that can only be defeated through intentional, fervent, believing prayer. The story is not a how-to manual but a narrative journey: readers watch Tony and Elizabeth move from pride, distance, and near-destruction to genuine repentance and restoration, and they are invited to examine their own prayer lives in the process.
12-Week Schedule
- Week 1Introduction — Meeting the Jordans and Miss Clara8 questions
- Week 2The War Room — Miss Clara's Closet and a New Way of Seeing8 questions
- Week 3Tony's Temptation — The Danger of a Drifting Heart8 questions
- Week 4Elizabeth's Surrender — Fighting For, Not Against8 questions
- Week 5Caught — The Moment of Reckoning8 questions
- Week 6Repentance — What Real Change Looks Like8 questions
- Week 7Forgiveness — The Hardest Prayer8 questions
- Week 8Danielle — Praying For Our Children8 questions
- Week 9The Real Enemy — Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God8 questions
- Week 10Restoration — When God Rebuilds What Was Broken8 questions
- Week 11Miss Clara's Legacy — A Life Given to Prayer8 questions
- Week 12Review & Reflection — The Battle That Changed Everything8 questions
Week 1: Introduction — Meeting the Jordans and Miss Clara
Free sampleRead the opening chapters of War Room by Chris Fabry (through the introduction of Miss Clara and the Jordan family). Key Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-12 ("Put on the full armor of God…")
1.Chris Fabry wastes no time establishing the outward appearance of the Jordan family: a beautiful home, successful careers, an impressive lifestyle. What details in these early chapters signal to you that something is deeply wrong beneath the surface?
2.Tony Jordan is presented as charming, driven, and deeply self-focused. What specific attitudes or behaviors in these early chapters reveal the condition of his heart — both toward his family and toward God?
3.Elizabeth Jordan is a real estate agent who is good at her job but struggling at home. How does her professional competence contrast with her sense of helplessness in her marriage? Have you ever experienced that same disconnect — capable in one area of life, powerless in another?
a.Where does Elizabeth seem to place her hope for the marriage changing?
b.What does that reveal about where she has not yet placed her hope?
4.Miss Clara is introduced as an elderly widow living in a modest home — hardly the kind of person the world would call influential. What is your first impression of her? What does the author seem to be saying about the kind of people God chooses to use?
5.Little Danielle Jordan is caught in the middle of her parents' cold war. How does Fabry use Danielle's perspective to show the collateral damage of a struggling marriage on children?
6.The book's title comes from the idea of a dedicated space for prayer — a "war room." Before Miss Clara explains the concept, what does the phrase "war room" mean to you? What does it suggest about how the author views prayer?
7.Ephesians 6:12 says our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces. In these opening chapters, who or what does each character seem to think they are fighting against? How does that compare to what Paul says the real battle is?
8.If you were to honestly assess your own prayer life right now, would you describe it as active and strategic, or more passive and occasional? What would it mean to take prayer as seriously as Miss Clara does?
Week 2: The War Room — Miss Clara's Closet and a New Way of Seeing
Read the chapters covering Elizabeth's growing relationship with Miss Clara and her first look at the war room. Key Scripture: Matthew 6:6 ("But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father…")
1.When Elizabeth first sees Miss Clara's war room — the walls covered with handwritten prayer requests, Scripture verses, and answered prayers — what is her reaction? What was your reaction as you read the description?
Week 3: Tony's Temptation — The Danger of a Drifting Heart
Read the chapters focusing on Tony's temptation at work and his growing distance from his family. Key Scripture: James 1:14-15; 1 Corinthians 10:13
1.Tony's professional success has fed his pride and his sense of entitlement. How does Fabry show the connection between unchecked ambition and moral drift? Where does Tony's story begin to go wrong?
Week 4: Elizabeth's Surrender — Fighting For, Not Against
Read the chapters depicting Elizabeth's growing commitment to prayer and her decision to fight for her marriage rather than against her husband. Key Scripture: Romans 12:21; Ephesians 6:18
1.Miss Clara pushes Elizabeth to ask a hard question: Is she willing to fight for Tony's soul, not just for her own comfort or a better marriage? How does Elizabeth initially respond to that challenge? What does her hesitation reveal?
Week 5: Caught — The Moment of Reckoning
Read the chapters in which Tony's secret actions come to light and he faces a moment of crisis. Key Scripture: Numbers 32:23 ("Be sure your sin will find you out"); Luke 15:17-18
1.Tony's hidden behavior at work is exposed in a way he does not expect. How does the author handle this moment — is it dramatic, quiet, or something else? What details make it feel real rather than contrived?
Week 6: Repentance — What Real Change Looks Like
Read the chapters depicting Tony's repentance and the beginning of genuine change. Key Scripture: 2 Corinthians 7:10 ("Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret…"); Psalm 51:1-12
1.Tony's repentance is not a single dramatic moment but a process. What are the specific steps he takes — toward God, toward Elizabeth, toward Danielle — that signal genuine change rather than just remorse?
Week 7: Forgiveness — The Hardest Prayer
Read the chapters in which Elizabeth wrestles with whether and how to forgive Tony. Key Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35; Colossians 3:13
1.Elizabeth has been praying for Tony's transformation — but when that transformation begins, she faces a new battle: the battle to forgive. Why is the arrival of repentance not automatically the end of Elizabeth's struggle?
Week 8: Danielle — Praying For Our Children
Read the chapters centered on Danielle and the impact of the family's transformation on her life. Key Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Proverbs 22:6
1.Throughout the story, Danielle has been a silent witness to her parents' conflict. What specific moments reveal how deeply the family's dysfunction has affected her, even when she does not say so outright?
Week 9: The Real Enemy — Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God
Read the chapters where the spiritual warfare theme is most explicitly developed. Key Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Peter 5:8
1.Fabry builds on Ephesians 6 throughout the novel, but this section makes the spiritual warfare theme most explicit. In your own words, what is the book's argument about the relationship between marriage conflict and spiritual warfare?
Week 10: Restoration — When God Rebuilds What Was Broken
Read the chapters depicting the restoration of the Jordan marriage and family. Key Scripture: Joel 2:25 ("I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten…"); Isaiah 61:3
1.The restoration of Tony and Elizabeth's marriage does not happen overnight. What are the specific, concrete steps they take together toward rebuilding trust, intimacy, and shared faith? Which of those steps strikes you as the most important?
Week 11: Miss Clara's Legacy — A Life Given to Prayer
Read the final chapters focusing on Miss Clara and the conclusion of her story. Key Scripture: Hebrews 11:1; 2 Timothy 4:7-8
1.Miss Clara's influence on the Jordan family is profound, yet she never directly confronted Tony, never gave Elizabeth a five-step plan, and never had any formal authority in their lives. What does her story say about the nature of spiritual influence?
Week 12: Review & Reflection — The Battle That Changed Everything
Review your notes from all eleven weeks of War Room by Chris Fabry. Key Scripture: James 5:16 ("The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.")
1.Which character in the novel — Tony, Elizabeth, Miss Clara, or Danielle — did you most identify with at the beginning of the story? Has that changed by the end? What does that shift (or lack of shift) tell you about yourself?
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