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Table of Contents

Note to Leaders

Group Session 1

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Group Leader Notes

Group Session 2

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Questions

Group Leader Notes

Group Session 3

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Questions

Group Leader Notes

Group Session 4

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Questions

Group Leader Notes

Group Session 5

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Questions

Group Leader Notes

Group Session 6

A Note from Kasey

Schedule

Questions

Group Leader Notes

Answers

Week 1: Bible Study Answers

Week 2: Answers

Week 3: Answers

Week 4: Answers

Week 5: Answers

Week 6: Answers

About the Author

Note to Leaders

So, you have taken on the bittersweet task of facilitating a small-group Bible study. Although some of you who carry the title group leader do so with your crowns firmly in place, propped up by years of positive experience, others may be feeling your crowns drooping a little toward the back. You may even feel like you’ve forgotten your crown at home under the hamper loads of laundry and a sink full of dirty dishes. In fact, you might find yourself the reigning Ms. Small-Group Leader only because you chose to scratch your head at the exact moment the director called for volunteers!

Several years ago, I must have scratched my head at the wrong time during a women’s ministry planning meeting at my home church, because I found myself stuttering and stammering through a twelve-week small-group study as the facilitator of fifteen ladies, all of whom were at least five years older than me. I remember breaking out in hives before, and ...