Small Group Qs: 600 Eye-Opening Questions for Deepening Community and Exploring Scripture

By Laurie Polich

Just what small group leaders need to get their youth started in a meaningful discussion. This flexible and adaptable resource for youth workers contains 600 questions including 50 complete Bible studies specifically designed to help groups get acquainted, get deep, get spiritual, get into topics, and get into the Word. Leader’s hints, exercise options, and fun, helpful tips are included.Features include: * 600 ready-to-go small group questions for equipping small group leaders* Perfect for youth workers, camp counselors, Sunday school teachers, student leaders, or volunteers* Leader’s hints, exercise options, fun and helpful tips* Flexible and adaptable--ideal for both junior high and high school groups

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: May 11, 2010
• ISBN: 9780310855033

Laurie Polich

Laurie Polich es miembro del equipo de entrenamiento de Especialidades Juveniles . Cuando no está dando clases sobre el ministerio con adolescentes en la Azusa Pacific University, habla en campamentos, conferencias y convenciones tanto para líderes juveniles como para jóvenes por todo Estados Unidos. Laurie es También autora de ¡Ayúdenme! íSoy líder de células!

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Small Group Qs

600 Eye-Opening Questions for Deepening Community and Exploring Scripture

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Polich, Laurie.

Small group Qs: 600 eye-opening questions for deepening community and exploring Scripture / Laurie Polich.

p. cm.

ISBN-10: 0-310-24023-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-310-24023-5

1. Church work with teenagers. 2. Bible study and teaching.

3. Christian teenagers—Religious life—Miscellanea. 4. Christian teenagers—Conduct of life—Miscellanea. I. Title.

BV4447 P565 2002

268’.433—dc21

2001039098

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan.

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Edited by Dave Urbanski and Vicki Newby

Cover and interior design by Left Coast Design

This book is dedicated to six close

friends who have taught me by their

lives and through their friendship what

it means to live the question:

Donna Barton

Stacy Sharpe

Krista Hughes

Marlo Oshima

Helen Musick

Vivian McIlraith

(Special thanks to Aaron Babyar

and Craig Barton, whose questions

helped fuel my creativity.)

This Is a Dangerous Book!

Getting Acquainted, Getting Deeper, Getting Spiritual

150 Questions

Getting Acquainted

50 Get-to-Know You Questions for New or Short-Term Small Groups

Getting Deeper

50 Questions That Inspire Intimacy—and Take Your Group to the Next Level

Getting Spiritual

50 Questions That Get into the Subject of God

Getting into Topics

150 Questions (25 per topic)

Self-Image

Friendship

Family Relationships

Love, Sex, and Dating

Missions and Service

Tough Topics

Getting into the Word

30 Ready-to-Go Bible studies (10 questions per study) with Topical Focuses

4 Friends Carrying Your Friends to Jesus (Mark 2)

John the Baptist He Must Increase (Matthew 3)

Mary and Martha Getting Your Priorities Straight (Luke 10)

Mary Saying Yes to God (Luke 1)

Saul to Paul Changed by Christ (Acts 9)

Peter Walking by Faith (Matthew 14)

Philip Sharing the Faith (Acts 8:26-40)

The Woman at the Well Facing the Truth (John 4)

Stephen Courage in Adversity (Acts 6, 7)

The Hemorraging Woman Desperately Seeking Healing (Mark 5)

The Rich Young Ruler Letting Go (Mark 10)

The Widow’s Mite Giving All You Have (Mark 12)

The Woman Caught in Adultery The Power of Grace (John 8)

Thomas Confronting Your Doubts (John 20)

Zacchaeus Responding to God’s Love (Luke 19)

Aaron Buckling Under Pressure (Exodus 32)

Adam and Eve Truth or Consequences (Genesis 2, 3)

Esther Courage to Stand (Esther 2–4)

Gideon The Battle Is the Lord’s (Judges 6, 7)

Hannah The Power of Prayer (1 Samuel 1, 2)

Job and His Wife The Test of Adversity (Job 1–2)

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife Tackling Temptation (Genesis 39)

Moses Called to Trust (Exodus 3)

Nehemiah Heart for God (Nehemiah 1, 2)

Noah Fool for God (Genesis 6–9)

Ruth and Naomi Keeping Commitments (Ruth 1)

Samson and Delilah Love Gone Bad (Judges 16)

Samuel and David Inside Choice (1 Samuel 16)

Solomon The Emptiness of Things (Ecclesiastes)

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Allegiance to God (Daniel 3)

About the Publisher

THIS IS A DANGEROUS BOOK!

So don’t let the title fool you. Questions change people. They unlock secrets and dreams that lie hidden in the heart. That’s what makes them so powerful.

Through his questions, Jesus inspired people to receive healing they didn’t know they needed, confront struggles they didn’t know they had, and expose secrets they didn’t know they kept. And he invites us to participate in the same ministry. That’s what makes your partnership with this book so exciting.

When I wrote Help! I’m a Small Group Leader!, I wanted to offer insights on small group leadership. And while Small Group Qs is a sequel of sorts, you won’t find more leadership tips inside—just a whole lot of questions. (Isn’t that what a small group leader really needs, anyway?)

For some of you, this may be a frustrating book—you’d feel a little more secure if the answers were printed in the back! But don’t forget how many times the disciples were left without answers when Jesus asked questions. I’m betting that Jesus must have known his questions had a power