§ Share with the group: What got you out of bed this morning and/or most mornings?
§ Describe the symptoms of laziness that you see in Proverbs 6:9, 19:24, 26:13 & 14. Ryan summarized the symptoms as inactivity and irresponsibility. Why are these appropriate categories—or, what would you add to them? How do these verses expand on the theme of irresponsibility as a symptom of laziness?
§ What are the “lions in the street” that you find yourself and/or others going back to?
§ How is poverty a symptom of laziness? Does this hold true for all cases of poverty, and all cases of laziness? Why or why not?
§ What is the promise of laziness and why is it alluring? How does laziness fail to live up to its promise? Where do you see this promise’s allure and continual failings, besides those places Ryan mentioned? Any examples from culture?
§ How is diligence an antidote to laziness and how does one cultivate it? (see Prov. 6:6 and elsewhere.) What did Ryan point to as a common false antidote to laziness? Do you agree? How does that idea challenge your presumptions about laziness?
§ Ryan explained that the original view of sloth as one of the deadly sins is that it is essentially an abiding apathy, or a complete spiritual indifference to everything. What is the connection between this notion of “sloth” and laziness?
§ Recall what gets you out of bed in the morning. Is it functioning in your life as a motivating passion? Why is the gospel, then, the best reason for a passionate life?
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