Bible Study Lessons and Sunday School lessons that get groups talking

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Hi! I am Josh Hunt. Pastor. Author. Dad. Granddad. Hiker. Photographer. I love small groups. And, I hate boring Bible Study lessons.When I lead a small group Bible Study, I like to walk in the door with about 20 ready-to-use questions. My preferred style of teaching is the Socratic, discussion-oriented approach. I believe people are changed more by what they say then what the hear.What you will find on this site are the same Bible Study Lessons I use when I teach a Small Group Bible Study or Adult Sunday School class. Each Bible Study Lesson consists of about 20 ready-to-use questions. (Probably more than you need.) I also provide answers in the form of quotes from some of my favorite authors and commentators. (I have a growing library of nearly 16,000 books in my Logos Bible Software Library to facilitate this.)In order for you to evaluate whether these lessons are a fit for you, I have provided several sample series for you to use and evaluate.This site is subscription-based. For $5.99 a month you get access to all the lessons. (Quarterly, Annual and church plans make it even more affordable.) No long-term commitment. Sign up here.You will also find some training videos on this site. These are free.(Keep in mind this is my personal email and phone. I am a one-man office. I live in Mountain Time zone.)Josh HuntGood Questions Have Groups talkingGood Questions Bible Studies that have groups talking are different from most lessons you have seen. Here are a few reasons why.Lessons approximate three ofLifeway's®series, plus the International Standard Series. (Copyright issues prevent me from following Lifeway's series exactly.) In addition, I write lessons that correspond with books by best-selling authors like David Jeremiah and Francis Chan. For one affordable price, you get access to all lessons. I have been doing this for years and 3000+ lessons available. Four new lessons added each week.Question-based rather than lecture-basedOur tag line is, Good questions have groups talking and that is the goal of every lesson. Look at one of thesample lessonsand you can see this difference right away. Put these lessons into the hands of all your teachers and watch your classes transform from lecture-based groups to discussion-based groups. Each lesson consists of 20 or so ready-to-use questions that get groups talking.Why is this important? Jesus taught that we are changed by what comes out of us. Until we confess the truth not just hear it we are not changed by it. What we say is like the bit in the mouth of a horse; what we say steers our whole life. Seethis articlefor more details.Application-drivenApplication is not tagged onto the end. We don t spend an hour talking about the passage in a rather abstract way then tag on a question on the end about application. Application is woven all through the lessons. Application is the point.Howard Hendricks used to say that the goal is not to make smarter sinners. Jesus taught us to teach them to obey not just teach them.Make it easy to find teachersThese lessons are so easy to use, they make it easier a lot easier--to find teachers. In fact, when I was a Minister of Ed, I never struggled to find teaches again after I started writing these lessons.Click here to read that story.If Max Lucado ever mentioned this week's text, I will find it and provide it to the teachers I serve.I want to make you sound brilliant. I want to provide you with the best insights from the best minds and warmest hearts in Christendom. Toward that end, I have a massiveLogoslibrary that I use to provide material for teachers.Each lesson in Good Questions Have Groups Talking consists of about 20 ready-to-use-questions with answers from world-class writers such as:Most curriculum has an inherent flaw. They can often get past it, but it cripples nearly every series made. Here is how it works. A committee gets together and decides on a text and topic. Then, someone is assigned to find someone who can write something brilliant about it. Turns out, this is a very difficult assignment and does not always meet with success. One of the reasons I have been a fan ofLifeway s ;Masterwork®series is that that series goes at it in the opposite way. They find someone who has already written something brilliant books by people like Beth Moore, Billy Graham and John Piper and turns it into a curriculum.I try to do a similar thing with my lessons. Each question is footnoted with answers taken from some of the best commentaries ever written. John MacArthur, Warren Wiersbe, Holman, Life Application Commentary, and many others. I also include great illustrations and stories from illustration books, trade books and devotional books. Quotes from world-class sources make these lessons different.What others have said:By the way using the strategy of fellowship and a decent lesson we have grown from 12 to 40 in 2 and a half years. By using Good Questions Have Groups Talking there is always something that penetrates my spirit and sets my mind to work. Josh Hunt's Good Questions, try it. Your teaching will be anointed!-John FordHighland Terrace Baptist ChurchGreenville, TexasBeliever ClassAge 60-graduationGod has utilized the Lesson's from Good Questions to minister to us. The questions are really good for facilitating meaningful conversation. Our class grew from 10 people to more than 40 in one year!!! We don't have a room big enough for us now. The format saves us time in preparation in order that we might be able to work on the ministry needs of our class.Jim CoxLubbock, TXIndiana Ave. Baptist ChurchI love using your lessons. I use them almost every Sunday. They really do get the conversation going. I usually learn more from my class input in 45 minutes than I do studying the background info, for hours, on each lesson. These lessons nearly always provide insight I would never have seen. Thank you for taking the time to write these lesson questions. I believe my presentation would be a lot less interesting without your help.Your friend,Brian NewellLife Community ChurchJamestown NCclass age 35-75I have started an outreach Bible study in our gym during the Sunday School hour. I am training our Bible study leaders to use your Good Questions that go with theLifeWay sLife Truths series. I have trained 10 people to be table leaders for three weeks and we are now ready for outreach. Our goal is to have 100 new Bible study members by starting new classes around round tables . So far we can report enrolling 3 new members and the discussions that have ensued have been stimulating and discipling (if you allow me to coin a new word). Your Good Questions save me a great deal of time and have been utilized to train new leaders to teach through directed discussion of God s Word. Thank you very much for your ministry.Dr. Robert DickersonSenior PastorFirst Baptist ChurchMarion, ILLatest Bible Study LessonsLatest Bible StudiesSignature SeriesLesson series only found on Good Questions SiteAncient WordsHow to Live the Christian LifeDiscipleship as a SportWhat My Grandbabies Taught Me About Theology4 HabitsThe Discipleship CourseRevitalize Your ChurchThe Gospel of Jesus I try to make teachers sound brilliant by providing great quotes from your favorite authors in every lesson. If Max Lucado ever wrote anything about this week's passage, I will likely find it. If you are not crazy happy with Good Questions, we will gladly refund your money. Here is my personal email: josh@joshhunt.com and personal cell phone: 575.650.4564.I used to be before I started writing Good Questions that Have Groups Talking.I served for 11 years as a Minister of Education. In this role, I lead a group. Each week I wrote up a lesson that consisted of 20 or so questions that I would use in class to teach my group. The group grew and we needed to divide.Big surprise I really struggled to find teachers.One of the guys I talked to about teaching made a suggestion. He said if I would continue to prepare my lesson as I was doing, he would take a class. He took the class, I continued writing lessons and all was well.Now, this wouldn t work for just anybody. For it to work, the teacher needs to have reasonable biblical background, spiritual maturity, and good people skills.Before long other teachers heard about the lessons, and I started distributing them to the whole church.People liked the lessons. Teachers like them because they saved them time. Students liked them because the classes were not boring lectures any more.Everyone didn t like them.The classic teacher-types were only mildly interested. They liked to study and read and dig it all out for themselves. My ready-to-use lessons saved them work that they didn t want to be saved from. But a lot of others really liked them. And, here is the most important thing. A whole lot of people agreed to teach who would have NEVER taught without the lessons. I never struggled again to get adult teachers.Teacherswatched me teach using Good Questions and something inside them said, I can do that. I can read 20 questions. I can lead a Bible Discussion Group. The church did well. In the 11 years I served as Minister of Education, it nearly tripled in size, going from one service and one Sunday School to four services and four Sunday Schools. Of course, the lessons were not the only reason. I served under three good pastors.Theparty strategyhelped. There were other contributing factors. Church Growth is nearly always holistic and complex. But every growing church needs to create new groups and the key to creating new groups is to get more leaders. Good questions made it easy for me to get new leaders. I can honestly say that from the time I started writing Good Questions I never struggled to recruit adult teachers. Never. Now, you don t have to struggle either.Here is one key to making it work:don t just pass out the username and password you will receive with your order; print up and pass out the actual lessons. Lessons correspond with three of Lifeway s® outlines, as well as the International Standard Series, and can be used along with curriculum or as stand alone lessons.Others heard about the lessons and I started mailing them out. But, with the cost and trouble of printing the lessons, putting them in an envelope, and putting a first class stamp on each one. . . it just didn t work very well.Then came the Internet.I will never forget my brother telling me about the Internet. I knew immediately I had a distribution system for these lessons. Only one problem. The computer I had didn t have enough hardware to get on the Internet. I remember asking my brother what I needed. Just make sure you get a 28.8 baud modem (in contrast to 14.4). That is the speed of choice. I bought an Acer desktop with 4 meg (that s meg, not gig) of RAM. At $100 per meg of additional RAM, I maxed it out at 8 meg.Within a few days, I had my first web page up and running with four lessons on the book of James. The rest, as they say, is history. I have been posting these lessons online since the days of 28.8 modems and they are all available to you. Four new lessons are added each week corresponding with Lifeway s® outlines, plus the International Standard Series. The lessons can be used to supplement these other outlines, or as stand-alone lessons. There are lessons on every book of the Bible and a wide variety of topical studies.It gets even better. About a year ago, I bought about $3000 worth ofelectronic commentaries, Bible dictionaries, illustration books, and trade publications. Now, instead of just providing questions, I also provide answers in the form of quotes from some of the best theological writings ever produced. In addition, I providegreat storiesand illustrations to make the lessons really come alive.There is a sliding scale that makes these lesson affordable for any church.

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