Before the Session

• Have the Bible Background Video ready to view.
• Review today’s scripture text and the session activities to help better facilitate the discussion.
• Encourage your group to listen to the Faithelement podcast ahead of the next session (Share the link via email or social media).

Context

Play the Fed Ex commercial and ask:

• What is one of the silliest things you have trusted in when looking back on your life five years later and what made it so untrustworthy?
• How do you think the “castaway” felt about finding out that his way off the island was right before him.
• What would you do if you had been trapped on an island with a package as he was, and why?
• The writers of the movie “Castaway” want us to see the mission to deliver the box as hope to keep moving, but how might that hope have been misplaced?
• How does someone misplace hope?

Content

Read Psalm 16, then watch the Bible Background Video.