The 3 essential parts of every God’s Story truth discovery time are: ConnectDiscover, and Respond. A facilitator guides the group through the following process.

 

Connect

  • What are you thankful for today?

  • How have you seen God working in your life this past week?

  • What difficulties are you experiencing in life? How may we help?

  • How did you apply last session’s discovery? What happened?

  • With whom did you share last session’s discovery? What was their response?

 

Discover

Step 1-Participants take turns reading sections of the passage (clarify new words/terms)
Step 2-One person reads the entire passage out loud while the rest listen
Step 3-A participant retells the passage in his/her own words (others add their thoughts)

Ask/Answer:

  • What do you see in this passage?

  • What does it mean to you?

  • What do you like/not like about this passage?

  • How does this passage change the way you see God/people?

 

Respond: If this is true...

  • How should it change the way you live?

  • With whom will you share today’s discovery?

 

Close

  • Decide when the group will meet again

  • Close in prayer (for needs mentioned earlier)