Dealing With Anxiety

May 5, 2024 | Josh Bayne


You either own your anxiety, or your anxiety will own you.


Discussion Questions


Start Talking 

  • What is your typical response to stress?

  • When anxiety comes, do you respond with fight (control, hurried, bossy) or flight (check out, medicate)?

  • What have you noticed about anxiety in the world around us? 

    • What role do you think the pandemic played in that?

  • Do you ever experience restlessness (the inability to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom)?

    • Is that a result of your life being too hard or your life being too easy?

Read This

  • Read Exodus 20:3

    • Which of the big three idols (Money, Romance, Children) have you made the ultimate thing in your life?

  • Now read it in context with the rest of the ten commandments: Exodus 20:1-17

    • How does that one commandment impact how we follow the rest of the commandments?

  • Read Psalm 62:1

    • Where does your soul find rest?

    • Where does your salvation come from?

    • How does knowing that change the way you deal with the stresses of life?

What Now

  • What is causing anxiety in your life?

  • What are you trying to achieve that is making you overworked, overstressed, overscheduled?

  • What are you depending on, other than God, for your well-being amidst the uncertainty of life?

  • What promises did you make to yourself as a child that informs the way you see and operate in the world?

  • Do you really want to be free from your anxiety?

  • What do you need to name and replace with God in order to let go of your anxiety?

  • How much would your anxiety decrease if you truly believed that your honor depends on God not on your striving?


Anxiety can be an early detection system that we’re depending on something other than God

for our well-being. -Steve Cuss, Managing Leadership Anxiety

Additional Series Resources

Bible Reading Plan

Song: Trust in God by Steven Furtick, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake, Mitch Wong

Book: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Book: Building a Non-Anxious Life by John Delony

Book: Managing Leadership Anxiety by Steve Cuss