Tips for
Small Group Study

1. Use Death by Suburb as an 8-week study on the spiritual disciplines.

2. Each week study one of the 8 chapters that explain the suburban toxins and the spiritual practices that counter them.

3. Download the free discussion guide for a list of questions to guide the discussion for each chapter.

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The Practices

1
TOXIN: “I am in control of my life.”

PRACTICE: The prayer of silence

2
TOXIN: “I am what I do and what I own.”

PRACTICE: The journey through the self

3
TOXIN: “I want my neighbor’s life”

PRACTICE: Friendship with the poor

4
TOXIN: “My life should be easier than it is.”

PRACTICE: Accepting my cross with grace and patience.

5
TOXIN: “I need to make a difference with my life.”

PRACTICE: Pursuing action, not results.

6
TOXIN: “My Church is problem.”

PRACTICE: Staying put in your church community when you want to leave

7
TOXIN: “What will this relationship do for me?”

PRACTICE: Building deep friendships

8
TOXIN: “I need to get more done in less time.”

PRACTICE: Falling in love with a day


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Advance Praise for
Death by Suburb

"Death by Suburb ... addresses and overcomes the split in our religion, our lifestyles, and even our consciousness."
—Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., author of Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

"With a compassion born of his own experiences of suburban unreality and dysfunction, Goetz effectively evokes a thicker sense of our social and religious worlds."
—Leigh Schmidt, Princeton University, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality

"Goetz sees the parched lives, the truncated spirits beneath the suburban bliss, and the grace too. In his gracious eyes suburbia begins to look like an outbreak of the Kingdom of God."
—William H. Willimon, author of Sinning Like a Christian