Aside from building community and "doing life" together, bible study should be about developing a fuller understand of the bible and how it applies to our lives.
With this aim in mind, two questions which should be freely asked when someone raises an opinion and, if rightly and appropriately challenged, are the following...
How has your thinking changed?
Now what?
When you've discovered something new, you need to hear these questions...
When you've had your mindset tweaked, you need to be asked these questions...
As satisfying as dropping a nugget of wisdom on someone might be, your job of imparting wisdom isn't complete until the person has sat with something a few minutes and then been asked these two questions...
The only trouble is, once you start asking these important questions then those who discover something new can begin to dread their posing since, it's only once they're asked that the true growth and discipleship commence.
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