Useful Phrases for Discussion Leaders

Affirmations Excellent insight. That’s interesting. Thank you for sharing that. All right! That’s great! That is sooo good! I like that! I can’t believe I didn’t see that! Beautifully said! Incredible verse—any thoughts on that? Thank you. Good studying. Good. Good point. Good observation! Interesting thought. Aren’t those beautiful verses he/she shared? That's excellent-I never thought of it that way!

Phrases To Draw Out Additional Responses What did someone else find? Anyone else, on this question? Anything to add? Who else would like to comment? Did anybody think of something different? Any additional insights? What about someone who hasn’t spoken today?

Phrases to Help Your Group Move On I am so sorry, but we need to move on. I wish we had time to get into those issues. I’ll be glad to talk with you about that this week. You know, we really need to do some study on that before we discuss it. We need to write that down as a topic for future study. Too bad we don’t have time to get into that now. If we are going to have time to pray, we need to move on. I wish we could discuss that more thoroughly, but if we don’t move on to the next question, e won’t make the lecture on time. I know we're all interested in this, but we’ll have to wait until we have more time to discuss it. Maybe someone would like to volunteer to study that and write down some verses for the rest of us to consider.

Bringing the Group Back to the BIBLE After a Wrong Answer What did our cross-references tell us about that? How does that compare with the verses we’ve already examined? Let's consider how this relates to the verses we saw. Thank you for bringing us back to where we began—these verses. (If someone has spoken truth afterwards) How did we see God say that same thing in...? What did the Bible say about that?