How to Ask Great Questions: Guide Your Group to Discovery With These Proven Techniques - Softcover

Lee-Thorp, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576830780 ISBN 13: 9781576830789

Publisher: NavPress, 1998

Synopsis

Great answers start with great questions.
People remember what they discover for themselves far more than what others tell them. A great question can mean the difference between exchanging information and discovering deeper meaning.

In How to Ask Great Questions, you’ll learn when and how to ask effective questions and how to promote follow-up discussions that will lead from thoughtful conversations to life application. Ideal for small-group leaders, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who regularly leads group discussions or committee meetings.

How to Ask Great Questions will equip you to

• build relationships between group members
• help people unpack a passage of Scripture or another book
• draw out opinions, feelings, and assumptions
• deepen discussions with intentional focus
• guide people in applying the Bible to their lives
• facilitate problem-solving and decision-making in group settings

Transform a gathering of acquaintances into a community of friends.

About this title

About the Author

Erynn Mangum is the author of Miss Match, Rematch, Match Point, Cool Beans, and Latte Daze (TH1NK/NavPress). She is a graduate of the Christian Writers Guild Apprentice and Journeyman programs. She also is a major chocoholic and loves chick flicks, coffee, and cold winter days. Erynn is married to her best friend, Jon O’Brien, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From the Back Cover

IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU BRING TO A GROUP THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, IT'S WHAT YOU UNLOCK WHILE YOU'RE THERE. People remember far more of what they say and discover for themselves than what they are told by others. Perhaps that is why penetrating questions were such an integral part of Jesus' teaching style. The power of well-timed, skillfully formed questions cannot be overstated. They can mean the difference between an information exchange and a time of discovery; they can transform a gathering of acquaintances into a community of friends. In How to Ask Great Questions, you'll learn when and how to ask effective questions, and how to promote follow-up discussions that will lead from good thinking to life application. Ideal for small group leaders, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who regularly leads group discussion or committee meetings, How to Ask Great Questions will equip you to: build relationships between group members; help people analyze a passage of the Bible or other book; draw out opinions, feelings, and assumptions; bring discussions to greater levels of depth and focus; guide people in applying the Bible to their lives; and facilitate problem-solving and decision-making in group settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576830780
• ISBN 13: 9781576830789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80