LEADER GUIDE Switch: At the Movies

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Point God created us to be in community.

Leader Notes Everyone has friends, but not everyone has the right friends. This week, help your students identify what type of friends they have and what the right type of friends should look like. Help them figure out what they can do to lead their friends to become core-value friends who encourage each other to become all that God has intended them to become.

Talk It Over Switch Group Questions 1.  Ice Breaker: If you could be best friends with any celebrity,

who would it be and why?

2.  What did you think of this week’s message about Guardians of the Galaxy? What did you like? What didn’t you like? What stood out to you most? What did you learn?

3.  How would you describe your friends? Why would you describe them that way?

4.  What’s one thing you love most about your friends? Why do you like that so much?

5.  What’s one thing you’d change about your friends? Why?

6.  What are common-interest friends and what are core-value friends? Do you have more common-interest friends or core-value friends? Why would you say that?

7.  Read Proverbs 13:20 out loud together.

8.  What do you think that verse means and is talking about?

9.  Would you say your friends help you become who God intended you to be? Why or why not?

10.  What can you do to help lead your friends to become core-value friends who point each other to God? How can you go about doing that?

1.  Ice Breaker: If you could be best friends with any celebrity, who would it be and why?

2.  What did you think of this week’s message about Guardians of the Galaxy? What did you like? What didn’t you like? What stood out to you most? What did you learn?

3.  Read Genesis 2:18 out loud together.

4.  Why do you think God intended us to do life with each other? Why not just be solitary creatures?

5.  What are common-interest friends and what are core-value friends? Do you have more common-interest friends or core-value friends? Why would you say that?

6.  What do you think spiritual community is? Would you say you and your friends have that? Why or why not?

7.  Read Hebrews 10:24 out loud together.

8.  What do you think that verse means and is talking about? What would that look like in your life?

9.  Would you say your friends help you become who God intended you to be? Why or why not?

10.  What can you do to help lead your friends to become core-value friends who point each other to God? How can you go about doing that?

Group Challenge Come up with a game plan on how to lead your friends to become core-value friends and start to lead them in that direction.