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PREPARING BEFOREHAND
- Did I begin early in the week to read through the chapter daily using different translations
(if possible)?
- Did I pray for insight and wisdom?
- Did I answer every question thoughtfully?
- Could I think through the main ideas of the chapter?
- Did I become so familiar with the questions in my personal study that I could skip the
ones already answered by the discussion when the group met?
- Did I think through the time division and decide which paragraphs and questions to move
over quickly and which ones needed more discussion?
- In my preparation, did I make applications to myself? Am I obeying what God is
teaching me?
LEADING THE SMALL GROUP
- Did I begin and end on time?
- Did I answer my own questions or wait for others to think and to answer?
- Was the Bible the authority, or a commentary, or was I, or someone else?
- Did I use the questions to help the group discover what is in the Bible passage?
- Did I skip questions already answered by discussion?
- Did I re-phrase any unclear question?
- Did I turn questions back to the passage or to the group, rather than answer them myself?
- Did I set an example of honest self-appraisal and personal application?
- Did I allow adequate time for the summary questions?
- Did the group pray together about what we learned?
ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION
- Did I encourage several contributions? ("What do the rest of you think?" or "Is there anything else that could be added?")
- Did we stay on the passage under discussion?
- If the group went off on a tangent, did I draw them back to the passage and to the questions?
- Did I receive all contributions warmly? (If necessary, did I ask, "In which verses did you find that?" or "Is that actually what it says?" or "What do some of the rest of you think?")
- Was I sensitive to people's feelings and needs?
- Did I encourage the hesitant members by watching for a facial expression or posture hint that indicated they were ready to speak?
- Did we achieve real discussion?
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