Leading Discussion
Exercise Week 5
Leading Discussion
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Cut these pairs into flash cards. Then in your small group, take turns reading one pair to a volunteer. He or she has a couple of seconds to come up with a response (just as you would in a real discussion). Follow the guidelines for responses from lecture last week. After the volunteer tries his or her hand, let the others suggest alternative possibilities.
| Young Christian sharing during discussion on Jesus cleansing the temple: |
| "I get mad like that all the time. But people always tell me I have a bad temper and its sin." |
| During a discussion on grace: |
| "Sounds to me like you’re saying I can do whatever I want and it just doesn’t matter. What about where it says ‘faith without works is dead?’" |
| During a discussion on grace: |
| "Yeah I think it’s really cool that we don’t have to try at all and we can just let God do everything." |
| During a discussion on sanctification: |
| "I don’t thinks this works because I’ve been trusting God with my eating problem and it doesn’t go away." |
| During a discussion on Christian sexuality, an older believer says: |
| "I think when you come to the Lord you really shouldn’t date for a few years." |
| During a discussion on the Christian view of marriage, a new person says: |
| "It sounds like you’re suggesting that women are supposed to submit to men…I find that really offensive" |
| During a discussion on Christian sexuality, a new person says: |
| "I have a gay friend who is in a life-long, committed relationship with his lover. Are you telling me that they are in sin?" |
| During a discussion on the will of God: |
| "I just really don’t feel like I can tell what the will of God is!" |
| During a discussion on Christian marriage a member says: |
| "I know a lot of non-Christian marriages that are really great. What about that?" |
| Discussing the
cleansing of the temple: The person who goes to another church, but shows
up occasionally says: |
| "I don’t think Christ should have been so hard on the Pharisees, they were just doing what they thought was right" |