"What is the Payoff?" Sermon Questions
1. What is one takeaway you had from the sermon? Why do you think that grabbed your heart?

2. How does verse 11 differ from our culture’s teaching that the highest value is to be a “change-maker” and to leave a lasting legacy? What questions does verse 11 raise in your heart?

3. Describe how you have searched for wisdom “under the sun”? How has that wisdom helped?

4. What part of your life right now feels like a “striving after the wind?” (v 14, 17)

5. In light of all the technological inventions over the last 50 years, is the Preacher’s teaching in verse 10 wrong? Why or why not?

6. What are some examples from your life that illustrate the truth that “the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing”? (v8). When your heart isn’t “satisfied” or “filled”, what do you tend to turn to that is “under the sun” (v 14)?

7. Why does Ecclesiastes make many people uncomfortable? Why is Ecclesiastes refreshing to many people?

8. Read Luke 24:27 and 2 Tim 3:16-17. How does this passage take us to the gospel?