Fireside Chat | Sunday, March 22, 2026

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“Year of Faith, Courage & Living in God's Grace”

Title: Faith & Courage Not to Forget Who You are

                [ A Remaking  of the Esther Story}

Text: Esther 4:11-17

                               Fireside Chat

1. In order for the Hebrew girl Hadassah to become Queen Esther, she

experienced "assimilation" and "acculturation." Explain how African

Americans have undergone a similar change.

2. What Secret did Hadassah have to keep?

3. Why did Esther forget who she was?

4. What does sin and assimilation look like working together?

5. Why is it important "Not to forget where you come from"?

6. What does it mean to bless your origins?

7. Do people living in a cultural plurality need to assimilate? In

what ways can we maintain our own ethnic identities?

8. How do we reconcile ourselves with the sins of our elders?

9. Do you know who you are in the sum total of who God made you?