Before thinking about questions, you must have studied and prayed to the point where you understand the passage and have what you believe is the main thing—the thing which the Lord desires by way of response, together with the main reason why this response should be given (the enthymeme). Only after you have this can you think of how to present the material.
- First Question: Trying to get the participants "into" the passage.
• Affective question is better generally than cognitive questions at this point.
• Not open-ended theological question: this tends to be too dry and leads to argument if people participate at all.
