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Small Group Conversation Starters: a Discipleship Tool for Youth Ministry SPIRITUAL HABIT: Spend Time with Others AGE GROUP: Students This activity is designed to help teenagers practice the spiritual habit of spending time with others. Because if we want to grow spiritually, we need to be engaged in healthy community and godly relationships with others-with people who share our beliefs, as well as with people who don't. These Small Group Conversation Starters are a simple way for volunteers to lead conversations with students on topics the students choose. You'll create a selection of conversation-starters by pairing a weird object with a topic (like a dinosaur toy with "fear," or two rolls of toilet paper with "identity"). Small groups will choose a topic that's relevant to them and then have a conversation (and maybe play a weird game or two) about that topic. These conversations aren't necessarily meant to teach or explore Scripture; instead, they're meant to help groups connect relationally, and help leaders better understand students' needs. All our discipleship activities are built to be flexible! You can use this activity in a variety of ways with just a little bit of modification, but here's how we recommend using this one: use this activity with your students and small groups any time during the semester at church or outside of church.

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