06.28.10
Questions at all Levels of Intensity... Training Your Small Group Leaders
Questions are the key to life-changing conversations. Questions come at all levels of intensity. Helping new small group leaders understand the levels of intensity that questions demand is important. Below you'll find a one page experience that you can copy and paste for use with your small group leaders. Here's how it works… Bring a deck of cards to your small group leader training experience. Spread them out face up on a table. Ask each attendee to go pick up one card and after getting their card to get in a group with four others. Now give them the information below (This will fit on an 8.5 by 11 piece of paper). Announce to the group that they should answer the question that relates to the card they have in hand. For instance if someone has a 3, 4, or 5 (of any suit) they should answer this question, "When you were a teenager, what celebrity did you want to be like? What qualities did they exhibit you wished you had?" If someone has a King of any suit they should answer the following question, "Of all the people you've known, who do you miss the most? What was your relationship with them?" Throughout the day get the same groups back together (be sure individuals are seated in the same order that they were when they first did the exercise). Have everyone pass the card they have to the left or right or across. This will allow group members to answer various questions without ever leaving the group they started with.
If you have a… 2 ask anyone in your group one of the following questions. They must answer: 3, 4, or 5, answer this question… When you were a teenager, what celebrity did you want to be like? What qualities did they exhibit you wished you had? 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 answer the following question… What do you like to do that makes you feel like a kid again? Jack… What is the most trouble you got into when you were in high school? What did you do? How did you right the wrong you did? Queen… Ask someone else in the group to determine which of the following celebrities from the TV show American Idol best describes your personality? King… Of all the people you've known, who do you miss the most? What was your relationship with them? Ace… When did you determine you were a person worthy of being loved and respected? What happened that brought you to that determination? OR Who paved the way for you to come to this conclusion? Joker… If you were to send a letter of thanks to the person who has extended the most grace to you, who would that communication be mailed to? What happened that would demand that level of grace?
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