Best Practices for Missional Community Bible Study Facilitation
-As you begin each study, pray that God will speak to you through his Word.
-Listen attentively to other members. Encourage only Bible reading from phones during the study.
-Work to include everyone’s voice by asking follow-up questions, restating what you heard someone say, and asking for more details to thoughts given by group members.
-It is often helpful for someone to take notes of the discussion and send them out afterwards to reinforce key learnings from the study.
-Pray for one another and be accountable to applying the word of God to your lives.
General Questions:
1. What does this scripture communicate about the heart of God?
2. What does it teach us about ourselves?
3. Does it challenge our thinking/beliefs in a new way?
Sermon Specific Questions:Read 2 Timothy 4 and discuss the following:
- Who did you grow up believing the Holy Spirit to be? If you didn’t grow up in the church, what did you hear or know about the Spirit early on?
- What role is the Father playing in your life today? What is He doing?
- What Person of the Trinity is more understandable for you the the Others?