Leaders need to continue to grow in character and skill
How do you help your leaders develop the character and skills they need to lead a multiplying network of Discovery Bible Studies?
The questions they bring to Scripture are influenced by the needs of the groups they lead.
We are finding these topics, passages and questions effective in training our leaders.
Passages
Leaders Call Others to Follow Christ | Matthew 4:18-25 |
Leaders Teach Attitudes God Blesses | Matthew 5:1-16 |
Leaders Teach Attitudes God Blesses | Matthew 6:25-34 |
Leaders Seek to Please God | Matthew 6:1-8; 16-18 |
Leaders Serve God | Matthew 6:19-34 |
Leaders Judge Righteously | Matthew 7:1-6 |
Leaders Judge Righteously | Matthew 18:15-20 |
Leaders Seek God | Matthew 7:7-12 |
Leaders Obey God | Matthew 7:21-29 |
Leaders Care for Outcasts and Sinners | Matthew 9:9-13 |
Leaders Teach, Preach, and Heal | Matthew 9:35-38 |
Leaders Send People Out | Matthew 10:1-16 |
Leaders Prepare for Persecution | Matthew 10:16-31 |
Leaders Offer Rest to the Weary | Matthew 11:25-30 |
Leaders Teach About the Kingdom | Matthew 13:1-9;18-23 |
Leaders Accept the Cost | Matthew 16:13-28 |
Leaders Listen to Jesus | Matthew 17:1-13 |
Leaders Teach About Faith | Matthew 17:14-21 |
Leaders Deal with Sin | Matthew 18:15-35 |
Leaders Honour Marriage | Matthew 19:3-9 |
Leaders are Servants | Matthew 20:20-28 |
Leaders Meet Needs Because of their Compassion | Matthew 20:29-34 |
Leaders Invest Faithfully | Matthew 25:14-30 |
Leaders Serve Those in Need | Matthew 25:31-46 |
Leaders Teach Others to Obey | Matthew 28:16-20 |
Questions
Look Back
- What are you thankful for this week?
- What are you struggling with and how can we help?
- How are the people in your group(s) going?
- Take time to praise God and pray for the needs
- How did you put into practice what we studied last time we met
- Who have you talked with about God or who have you prayed with lately? What did God do?
- What needs have you met in the community since the last time we met?
Look Up
- Read the title for this discussion.
- Ask someone to read the passage one paragraph at a time.
- Have a group member tell it in their own words.
- Ask the group if they added anything or left anything out.
- When you finish with ALL paragraphs, ask someone in the group to tell the WHOLE story by memory. Have the group correct any errors.
- What does this passage tell us about God?
- What does this passage tell us about people?
- How does this passage relate to the title for this discussion?
Look Forward
- How could we apply this Scripture: Is there a Sin to avoid, Promise to claim, Example to follow, Commandment to obey?
- How can this passage help you lead your group(s)?
- Who will you tell what your learned today? What will you tell them?
- What needs can we meet in the community this week?
- When do you want to meet again?