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[Above: Biddy's Forword to Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 1991]

Discuss these questions with a group or use for personal reflection.

1. How much did you know about Oswald Chambers before reading this issue? What new details did you learn about him?

2. Identify spiritual influences in Chambers’s early life (pp. 6–9). How did they encourage him to pursue ministry?

3. How did Chambers’s time with the League of Prayer and with God’s Bible School (p. 10) inform his theology and writings? 

4. Why did Chambers choose to leave the art world behind (pp. 11–13)? How do you think his artistic and poetic abilities came out in his preaching and teaching? 

5. What did you learn about Biddy Chambers (pp. 14–16)? How did her work affect Chambers and those he served?

6. How did the BTC live on in Chambers’s YMCA camp in Zeitoun (p. 17)? What was unique about Biddy’s ministry there? 

7. How did Chambers’s experiences in Dunoon prepare him for World War I (pp. 18–20)? What can we learn from his wartime ministry, both in times of peace and war? 

8. Describe Biddy’s “work of the books” (pp. 24–26). What impact did this calling have on others during her lifetime? Why do you think she chose anonymity in her ministry?

9. Consider the excerpts from Baffled to Fight Better / Our Ultimate Refuge (p. 21) and My Utmost for His Highest (p. 27). Which excerpts stuck with you and why? 

10. What was the white blouse revolution (pp. 28–30)? How did the changing world of women’s work allow Biddy to become a publishing phenomenon? 

11. What did David McCasland’s search for Oswald Chambers (pp. 31–32) reveal about Chambers that readers of My Utmost for His Highest had not known before? 

12. Who were the figures included in “Faithful legacies” (pp. 33–36)? Which preacher interested you the most and why? Who do you think had the most influence on Chamber’s spiritual development?

13. How did the legacy of Oswald and Biddy Chambers extend beyond them (pp. 37–38)? Why do you think Oswald’s works had such an extensive reach?

14. In CH’s interview with Macy Halford (pp. 39–41), we looked at some critiques of My Utmost for His Highest. Do you agree with the critiques? Why or why not?  CH 

By the editors

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