The 3 essential parts of every God’s Story truth discovery time are: Connect, Discover, and Respond. A facilitator guides the group through the following process.
Connect
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What are you thankful for today?
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How have you seen God working in your life this past week?
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What difficulties are you experiencing in life? How may we help?
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How did you apply last session’s discovery? What happened?
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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:
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What do you see in this passage?
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What does it mean to you?
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What do you like/not like about this passage?
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How does this passage change the way you see God/people?
Respond: If this is true...
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How should it change the way you live?
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With whom will you share today’s discovery?
Close
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Decide when the group will meet again
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Close in prayer (for needs mentioned earlier)