- Recall a time in your life where someone or a group of people let you down or broke a promise or vow. How did the experience impact your ability to trust their integrity after?
- Where in your own life or circumstances do you notice your own tweaking of Jesus’ call to radical integrity? How do you think it has impacted those you encounter negatively?
- What have you actively done to successfully demonstrate your integrity?
- If we follow this idea of radical integrity, what in our lives must change when it comes to our word being trustworthy? How many of these things are observable behaviors?
- How do our promises and the extent of them show our true selves?
- What does it look like to move towards a promise that needs no more than our own reputation to be trusted?
- How do we restore our reputation for integrity after we’ve broken that reputations by our actions of not holding to our promises?
- As we think about truth telling and integrity in a world of misinformation, what practices can help us ensure that the information we share and the statements we make have an integrity? Before we make them and after?
- Can you think of a time you appreciated someone else’s integrity? How did their integrity impact the situation?
