1. When you get to feeling like a rundown city personally, what is usually the cause?

2. If there were one area of your life where you could choose to get control of, what would it be?

3. Why do you think so many Christians feel so helpless to make changes in their lives?

4. Besides God, who in your life believes in your potential the most?

1. What kind of friend are you?

2. What difference would, ‘listening before speaking’ make in your relationships?

3. How do you balance meeting the needs of others with meeting your own needs?

4. Judging by the people you spent time with last month, what kind of company do you keep?

5. By contrast, who did you used to hang around with?

1. Share about a time when one of your plans didn’t work out the way you thought it would.

2. What kinds of things cause people to stop making plans?

3. What plans are you currently working on?

4. Can you think of a time when your plan was exceeded by God’s plan for you?

1. Why do you think people in our culture put such an emphasis on physical health, but not as much on the other kinds of health?

2. If diet and exercise are the keys to physical health, what do you think are the keys to emotional, mental and spiritual health?

3. How has your physical health been affected by a lack of attention to the other forms of health?

4. If you wanted to balance your health physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, which area needs the most work in your life right now? What will you do about that?

1. What are some of the reasons why people lie?

2. Who is a person you have admired for their integrity? Explain how they have inspired you.

3. Who is a person that you have the easiest time to be honest with? Why?

4. What areas of your life could use more integrity?

1. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

2. What is a poor decision you made in your life that would’ve made your present a lot better if you’d chosen differently?

3. What is the best decision you’ve made in your life other than accepting Jesus?

4. What would you like to see happen in your life this year?

1. What are the kinds of things that cause people to reject Jesus?

2. Why do you think most Christians don’t witness to those who don’t know Jesus?

3. What does it feel like to you to be judged by others?

4. Why do you think the people in Revelation 11 were so happy when the two witnesses died?

1. Who in your small group is most like Diotrephes? 😉

2. Who have you known in your life who reminds you of Gaius?

3. Why do people need to be first?

4. How does seeing God affect your perspective on yourself and others?

1. What does a relationship with God mean to you? How can you have a relationship with someone you’ve never seen?

2. When was a time in your life when Jesus felt most real to you?

3. How closely do you think relationship and joy are related, and why?

4. How does confession enhance relationship?

1. Why do you think the Transfiguration was such a big deal to Peter?

2. How did the Transfiguration confirm Biblical prophecy?

3. In his re-telling of this story, why do you think Peter left Moses and Elijah out of it, as well as “hear Him”?

4. Have you ever experienced something that made the Bible more real to you?

5. What place does experience play in the life of a believer today?