Esther - Oliver Russell

ESTHER - SPIRIT LED by Oliver Russell
Watch together the excellent Bible Project video giving an overview of the story and the structure and the themes of the book (9 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JydNSlufRIs&t=426s 

More accessible group questions

• Where can you notice the theme of unexpected reversal in the story?
• Where have you experienced an unexpected reversal? Did you think that it was God behind it?

Some deeper questions

• Where in your world does it feel like God is absent from? This might be some part of your personal life or in the confusing wider world. What can you do about it?
• Have you ever been tempted to look at a bad decision that turned out good and think "that's what was meant to happen"? How else might we intepret these events?
• How can we take action after praying for God to move?