Saying “No” to ourselves
1. Which do you find most easy or challenging? Denying yourself, taking up your cross or following Jesus?
2. Like Belle when she took her father’s punishment, when has it ever cost you to act out of kindness to someone else? What happened? How did God bless your act of kindness?
3. Belle defended her father and the Beast. Who have you stood up for in the past? Which colleague at work or friend at school might need you to stand up for them now?
4. To follow Jesus means to live lives of service to others. We are all good at different things, and Jesus is asking us to use our talents for other peoples’ benefit. What are you good at? Who could you bless through your talents?