Facilitator’s Guide

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

• 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)