1

The author says we are the most illusioned people on earth. Agree? Disagree? How?

Images aim to provoke something in us to get something from us like our time, attention/thoughts, outrage, money, lust, votes, ect. How do you see this in your life?

In this age of the spectacle how can Philippians 4:4-9 help us to spiritually thrive?

2

What is the authors overall picture of spectacles? Do you find it helpful?

What do our cultural spectacles want from us? (4 t’s, our votes, our clicks etc.)

3

What is at the heart of our desire to seek eartrhly spectacles?

Think about all God’s specific laws, ordinances, and statutes. Discuss how He used these to help his people with their distraction and attention?

How can what distracts and what we give our attention become our objective and subjective reality more and more over time? How is this a form of idolatry?

4

We are a culture dominated by the image and not the word. Image is our identity and that is a dangerous thing. How does the author say this impacts us?

5

Your spectacles help you live as both spectator and star fighting the principles of God and his call serve and surrender to Him and others. How do our spectacles twist our mind and make us spectators of our own glory?

6

How is the shift from being to appearing destroying us?

How do we become a spectacle either of destruction and selfishness or of God?

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