Time for another discussion question.  ”

“If you could wave a magic wand and stop any one thing, what would you stop?  Why?”

Do you think that framing the question as what you you stop rather than what would you “want” or “ask for” results in a qualitatively different response?  Do you think your response is less self-centered and more outwardly focused?

Does this question have practical implications for the way we live our life?  Would asking different questions result in a different focus for our life?  A different worldview?

Share your answers in the comments below.

If you were to hang a motto in your home, what would it say?

If you were given $100,000 to celebrate someone or something, who or what would you celebrate?

If you were to fast-forward your life five years, where would you be and what would you be doing?  What changes would people see in you?

If you could take back something you said in 2009, what would it be?

If you were going to a costume party next week, what costume would you wear?

If you could grant any three wishes to one person, to whom would you grant them?  Why?

No man is religiously neutral in his knowledge of and his appropriation of reality.
~ Henry Zylstra, in Testament of Vision, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981, page 148

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If you were to get a tattoo, what would it be and where would you put it?

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Group leaders frequently use icebreakers to get the group members to interact with one another. Historical questions work well. I have heard or used questions such as,

• “What historical figure would you most like to meet?”
• “If you could go back in time, what historical event would you most like to witness?”
• “If you were throwing a dinner party and you could invite any eight people from any time in history, who would you invite and why?

Well, here is a related question for you to answer in the comment section below.

If you could capture any event in history on videotape, which one event would it be?

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