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Last Updated on July 7, 2024 by Rocklyn Clarke

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Good News Pages

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Purpose

Please make sure you have used this Good News material to personally win someone to Christ before you use it to train others!

Follow this link for information about these key aspects of our Good News Training:

• Purpose, Goals, Habits, Ministries, and Assignments.

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Asking Good Questions

Are you curious about people? Are you a good listener?

One of the easiest ways to start a spiritual conversation with someone is to ask good questions and to listen carefully to what the person says. A good question gives someone a chance to reveal something about themselves. You may also recall that, in the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism, the video for  Threshold 2: Curiosity encourages us to develop a set of questions we enjoy asking people.

Basic Questions:

• • What excites you? What inspires your passion? 
  • What breaks your heart?

Questions adapted from Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Church" - repeated in various articles (e.g. Christian Post: "Understanding Unbelievers"):

Initial Questions

• • • What do you think is the greatest need in this area?
    • Are you actively attending any church?

Followup Questions for those not actively attending any church:

• • • Why do you think most people don't attend church?
    • If you were to look for a church to attend, what kind of things would you look for?
    • What could I do for you?  What advice can you give to a Christian who really wants to be helpful to people?

Questions from Threshold 2: Curiosity:

• • Do you have any faith background?
    • What does that mean for you today?
  • Have you ever been to church?
    • What's your experience with Christians been like?
  • Every thinking person owes it to themselves to form an adult opinion about Jesus.
    • Have you had that chance?

Other Questions

• • What do you do (i.e. job, career, etc.)?
    • How did you decide to go into that line of work? What do you like/dislike about it?
  • Where are you from?
    • Do you want to stay here? What do you like about being here?
    • Is there anywhere else you would like to live? Why?

Checkout the following:

• • C.S. Lewis Institute: Three Powerful Questions
  • InterVarsity Evangelism Site: Ask Good Questions

Topics to explore in discussion:

• • What questions can you think of that might open your relationship with a new person?
  • What questions can you think of that might help start a spiritual conversation with someone?

Additional resources to check out:

• • The Five Thresholds
    • Threshold 2: Curiosity | Evangelism (00:04:03)

Training assignment (do this yourself, and use it to help train someone else):

• • Work with your group to share and practice questions that launch conversations.

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