1. Who are the church leaders who have had a major impact on your life?

2. Who, other than the church staff members, have encouraged you?

3. What have you done in the church that made you feel like you were really making a difference to someone?

4. Who was the best storyteller you’ve ever known?

5. Who helped you keep moving when you were ready to give up? What did they say or do that helped?

1. What do you think makes people so interested in future predictions?

2. Why do so many people walk around in a fog, instead of being alert and aware?

3. Of faith, hope and love, which is the hardest for you?

4. What are you doing to try to encourage and build up others?

1. What is the hardest loss you’ve ever had to deal with in your life?

2. When you’ve mourned a loss you experienced, who or what helped?

3. What are some of the dumb things people have said to you in trying to comfort you?

4. How would you describe what comfort feels like?

1. What led you to your understanding of your personal worth as a child, both good and bad?

2. Why do we try to shame people and throw stones at them when they sin? How is that counterproductive?

3. What noise do you need to calm down in your life?

4. Have you ever had an experience where your lack of significance was liberating?

1. When you get to heaven who are the first five people you’ll want to see?

2. Who would you give your life for today?

3. Who has hung in there for you the longest?

4. Who constitutes your “Us” circle, where you won’t give up on each other?

1. Have you ever been led astray by a narcissistic leader? What attracted you to them?

2. Who are the spiritual leaders who have inspired you and what was it about them that helped you?

3. Who are you trying to lead and inspire?

4. Who has been influenced by you who makes you proud?

1. Did you ever have misconceptions about the Lord’s return?

2. How often do you think about the Lord’s return?

3. In what ways have you served the Lord in the past or present?

4. In what ways do you spread the word about church and the Gospel?

5. What does waiting for Jesus look like for you?

1. Do you struggle with “throwing stones at times”?

2. Have you ever found yourself ranking sin?

3. Do you consider yourself an encouraging person? Explain. If you are not encouraging, have you thought about making a new friend who is encouraging?

4. Jesus did not come to condemn but to save. What does that mean to you? Has the way Jesus looks at you changed how you look at others? Explain.

1. What is causing you to “groan” during this season of your life?

2. How will you remember the glory you are heading towards? How can it transform your outlook on your life?

3. Have you experienced feeling too weak to pray with words? How does it encourage you that the Spirit intercedes for you?

4. Is there a way in which you are seeking to change your circumstances, where you need to instead seek to change your heart’s attitude towards them?

1. Is there something that you have given up on, and later regretted?

2. Is there a situation that you have been through that made you feel like quitting or giving up, but you stuck it out?

3. Why do you think we avoid pain in our culture? Where do you tend to avoid pain and difficulty?

4. What situations have deepened your character the most in life? Was pain or difficulty a part of that situation?