By Dan Lentz 1. Talk about your family. How many brothers and sisters do you have? Where do you fall in the birth order? Tell the group something unique about your parents. Read John 9:1-17. 2. It was common in Jesus’ day to equate disability and health problems with sins committed by […]
Where You Live — April 15, 2012
By Dan Lentz 1. Distribute sheets of paper and ask group members to draw a series of stick figures representing the various people groups they routinely come in contact with (children, the elderly, Caucasian, Hispanic, wealthy, poor, and so on). Then ask group members to show and explain their papers to the rest of […]
Where You Live–April 15, 2012
By Dan Lentz 1. Appoint someone to write on a white board or large piece of paper. Then ask the group to shout out current news headlines until you have a dozen or so headlines on a list everyone can see. Go around the group and ask each person, “Which headline stirs up a […]
Where You Live–for April 8, 2012
By Dan Lentz 1. Think back to the first time someone close to you died. What was it like for you? Did you occasionally visit the gravesite? Read John 20:1-10, 19, 20. 2. When John, Peter, and Mary visited Jesus’ empty tomb, they were not immediately able to discern what had happened […]
Where You Live–April 1, 2012
Queations and Answers for Small GroupsBy Dan Lentz 1. Talk about a time when you were falsely accused of a wrongdoing or took the punishment for someone else’s wrong. How did it feel to be falsely judged? Read John 18:28-38. 2. Do you see differences in the way the Jewish leaders were […]