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

    By Laurie Polich

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9780310855033
    Small Group Qs: 600 Eye-Opening Questions for Deepening Community and Exploring Scripture
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    Laurie Polich

    With 15 years of youth ministry experience, Laurie Polich serves as pastor of small groups and discipleship at Ocean Hills Covenant Church, in Santa Barbara. She¹s the author of several books including Help! I'm a Small-Group Leader training curriculum and book, Studies on the Go: John, and Small Group Qs, and she speaks frequently to students and youth workers across the country.

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      Book preview

      Small Group Qs - Laurie Polich

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      Small Group Qs

      600 Eye-Opening Questions for Deepening Community and Exploring Scripture

      Copyright © 2002 by Youth Specialties

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 0-310-85503-9

      Youth Specialties products, 300 S. Pierce St., El Cajon, CA 92020, are published by Zondervan, 5300

      Patterson Ave. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

      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

      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.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Web site addresses listed in this book were current at the time of publication. Please contact us via e-mail ([email protected]) to report URLs that no longer are operational and replacement URLs if available.

      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

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