Episode 22: Asking Questions to Prompt Deep Conversations (Hartman & Bradley)

Every youth leader knows how challenging it can be to facilitate meaningful and deep conversations. It can be so discouraging to prepare for meaningful ministry only to receive one-word answers and silence. In this episode, we're joined by two of our regular blog writers to discuss how we can learn to ask better questions that prompt meaningful conversations. 

• What makes for a good question? 
• What are some lessons you’ve learned the hard way about asking good questions? 
• After you’ve prepared your message or small group lesson and it’s time to develop questions, how do you go about crafting those? 
• What’s your favorite go-to question to ask students when you’re trying to strike up a conversation? 
• What advice do you have for youth workers who are either socially awkward or just not good at question-asking? 

Joseph Bradley is the student pastor at Second Baptist Church of Arkadelphia in Arkadelphia, Arkansas 

Nick Hartman is the associate pastor of students and discipleship at Mt Carmel Baptist Church in Cross Plains, TN

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