Questions

Learning to love people. What an odd thing. For some reason God is filling my thoughts with that idea. It's not something I feel preticularly good at, yet it is something I want to be great at. Learning to truly care about them and dig into their world. I may seem like I love people because for the most part I'm nice to them but for me I know I truly love someone when I'm genuinly digging and trying to get to know them. I want that with more people. I was asked to lead my core group at youth group a few weeks back and my first initial fear was "how am I going to teach?" and my leader pointed out that the most effective way to lead the group was to ask questions and prod for answers. I did and it worked well. Questions can be the best way to get to know someone. Without questions the person doesn't think you even care to know about them. I've had many conversations with people that didn't really go anywhere because neither of us asked questions. We only discussed random subjects. The people I have the best conversations with are question askers. I think of a guy in particular that seems to do that well. He is a leader in the jr. high group and is a friend of mine. He reads this blog and if he does read it then I want to thank you for always asking great questions. You are very good at that. That is something God is showing me. Especially with the jr. highers I'm trying to get to know. I don't know diddly squat about them and random conversations aren't going to get me anywhere. Questions show that I want to get to know them. Questions are good........Questions cause thought.