Discussion Guide for "Love is Not Enough"

A few questions for discussion starters

1. What did you hear that seemed important to you?

2. What was new information?

3. What did you disagree with?

4. What are your questions?

You may choose from this next series of questions as a way to explore the presentation through discussion

1. Do you agree with Dr. Sittler that the concept of 45 million hungry people is overwhelming, beyond comprehension? How do these facts make you feel?
    

2. What is your understanding of the word love? Is it usually that emotion that springs up between people — love meaning loving someone lovable? Is that a complete understanding of Christian love?
    

3. How did Jesus expand our understanding of love when he commanded us to "Love you enemies?" What does love in that sense mean?
    

4. What does Dr. Sittler mean when he says, "Love can be a pious acknowledgement, that we should throw a few crumbs towards those less fortunate, but avoids justice?"
    

5. Why should we love people we have never met? Do we have the right to limit love? Why?
    

6. Dr. Sittler defines justice as love operating at a distance. What does this new commandment to love given by Jesus mean in a wealthy world where so much hunger exists?
    

7. At what point does this existence of military weapons for maintenance and order turn into a lust for power and world domination?
    

8. Dr. Sittler said, "To be moral is to know what you're doing." How conscious are we of the ramifications of our actions?
    

9. Luther said, "Each man must do his own believing just as each man must do his own dying." If each of us must decide what is a just lifestyle in terms of the rest of the world. What are some guidelines to use?
    

10. Is the danger to the faith intrinsic in riches or in the love of riches? When nine-tenths of the world is poor, does wealth help us to understand them to be brothers and sisters in Christ with them?
     

11. Dr. Sittler says, "For myself and my family, what could we do which would enable us to hold out the hand of love at a distance to those we will never know?" How can we respond to this statement?

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