Questions to focus on: Befriending and relationships - Jesus' methods

These questions can be used at different levels. You can take 30 seconds to think about one or two. You can discuss them in a team or group of like-minded Christians. Or they can be used in a college class, including assignments and research projects, and answered in writing at any depth. They may be freely reproduced for this purpose. Please email us additional questions that could be added to this page.
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  1. What are the barriers to befriending people online and building up relationships of trust?
  2. Go through the gospel accounts and pick out stories which demonstrate that Jesus was not an aloof lecturer or distant evangelist, but a 'people person'.
  3. Find a second-hand copy of the The Gospel Blimp. What was the 'cut and run' method which proved so ineffective, and what method of communication did work?