DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. What is your normal reaction to pressure? When you are squeezed, what comes out?

  2. What do you feel are some of the main areas of pressure we will have to face in 2026?

  3. Read Matthew 5:1-12.  How does this passage speak to you in light of the pressures we see all around us?

  4. How does what Jesus teaches in these “Beatitudes” differ from how the world tells us to behave or act?

  5. What do you see as the benefits to living a life that demonstrates the Beatitudes?

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