Personal Questions:
Q: How do you usually spend your allowance?
Q: For a person you deeply loved, would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing that you would never see your family again?
Q: Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport?
Q: Would you accept $500,000 dollars to leave Singapore and never return?
Q: If you were able to live to 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30 year old for the last 60 years which would you choose?
Q: Would you prefer to be extremely successful in scholastics and have a tolerable yet unexciting social life, or have an extremely exciting social life, but only a mediocre scholastic achievement?
Q: If a drug was invented that, in one does, would allow you to live for 1000 years at any physical age you choose, but a side effect was it would make you extremely ugly, would you take it?
Q: For an all expense paid, one week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a butterfly by pulling off its wings?
Q: Would you be willing to kill an innocent person if it permanently ended world hunger?
Q: If God appeared to you in your dreams and told you leave everything behind and travel to the Red Sea and become a fisherman, would you?
Q: Would you be willing to give up EVERYTHING you have now for a pill that would permanently change you so that you only needed one hour of sleep each day to be fully refreshed?
Others can be found in the book “The Book of Questions” by Gregory Stck, PHD.
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Materials
None
Icebreaker Description
Youth will ask and answer questions in rhyme
Preparation
None
Icebreaker Activity
- Seat the youth in a circle.
- Ask someone to ask the person on his/her right a question. He might ask, for example, ‘What color is my shoe”
- The youth questioned must answer with a response that rhymes with the question. He might say, for example, “It’s any color but blue.”
- He/she then turns to the person to his/her right and asks a question which must again be answered in rhyme.
- Do this until every person in the circle has answered.
Optional Debrief
Has it ever seemed that your questions in life go unanswered or that the answers don’t really make sense?
What are some of the questions you would like to ask God?
Conclusion
Everyone has questions and doubts. Doubts alone are not a cause for concern. Its what we do with our doubts that makes a difference. Even though we may not understand the reasons for things, we must take our doubts to God and place them in his hands. Thomas had doubts about the resurrection of Christ, but Jesus did not condemn him for them. In fact he gave Thomas the evidence he needed to remove his doubts and live by faith.
Application
What are some of your doubts that you need to place in God’s hands?
Scripture
John 20:24-29
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“Who do people say that I am?” Jesus Asked — perhaps because people find it easier to begin talking about other people’s opinions. It was an invitation to discussion. Jesus then asked the personal question: “Who do you say I am?” (Matthew 16:15) because he was never content to leave spiritual truth at the level of discussion of what others believed. Spiritual Truth must become personal if it is to change lives.
Jesus used questions to help people draw conclusions for themselves, such as when He spoke with the rich ruler about eternal life (Luke 18:18-29).
He also invited discussion and used questions to correct faulty thinking, as when He talked with religious leaders about authority (Matthew 21:23-27). Often Jesus did not answer His own questions but used them to lead His listeners toward truth.
But Jesus did more than ask questions. Part of encouraging others to talk is learning to listen. He himself learned by listening to teachers in the temple (Luke 2:46). He reminded His followers to listen to understand (Mt 11:15; 13:18; 15:10). God commanded people to listen to Jesus (Lk 9:35). Jesus listened and encouraged others to listen.
When we invite others to speak, we get them to interact with the truths of God. When we invite others to speak, we are one step closer to teaching as Jesus taught.
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