This week's episode Scott is joined by Peter Sohn, guys groups pastor from NIC MS, and Nick Bernard, our Southland Students Worship & Programming Pastor serving all our campuses. Listen in as they talk about Gen Z, and how knowing a little bit more about them, may help us understand them and serve them a little bit better!

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. How many of the words that Peter and Nick talked about did you know, and are there any that you would add that would be important? 
2. Out of the influencers that Peter mentioned, how many did you you know? 
3. What is one thing you appreciate about Gen Z students?

Resources:

Meet Gen Z - James Emery White

Axis Weekly Cultural Translator 

High School Teacher Explains Gen Z Dictionary

This week's episode is part two of Scott's conversation with Rolland Blair and Ariea King. Listen in as they talk about anxiety, fear, and worry.

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. How do you cope with stress in your personal life? 
2. Do you feel like our students are more or less stressed than you were as a middle or high school student?
3. What is something you can do repeatedly, or change in your life, to become a non-anxious presence during Southland Students? 

Resources:

Book Resource - Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

This week's episode Scott is joined again by two long time Lexington Campus folks, Rolland Blair and Ariea King. Listen in as they talk about how anxiety is not just a student issue, but a people issue. 

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. Is anxiety, fear or worry something that has been a struggle for you personally? 
2. How do you cope with the stress of life? 
3. Do you feel like our students are more or less stressed than you were as a middle or high school student?

This week's episode Scott is joined again by Ben MacGill, our NIC High School Guys Groups Pastor, and NIC Middle School Girls Groups Pastor. Listen in as they talk about the spiritual practice of confession. 

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. Coaches, if you have something, start off by sharing a time when confession was part of your story (either you confessed or someone confessed to you). 
2. Has there ever been a time where you needed to confess something and you choice to share it?  What happened to your heart? How'd the person you shared with respond? 
3. Close in praying for each other. Ask God specifically that trust would be built within both your coaches group and your small group, so if anything needs to be confessed there is an open place to share. 

Resources:

Celebration of Disciplines - link

This week's episode Scott is joined again by Ben MacGill, our NIC High School Guys Groups Pastor, and Allison Antram, a High School Junior Girls Group leader at our Lexington Campus. Listen in as they talk about the spiritual practice of the Sabbath. 

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. When was the last time you participated in Sabbath? 
2. When you think about taking a full 24 hour period of time to stop, rest, delight, and worship - what words come to mind? 
3. What would be your biggest hesitation in trying to set aside one day this week to truly rest in who God is?

Resources:

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - link

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - link

On this week's episode, Scott is joined by Ben MacGill our High School Guys Group Pastor at Nicholasville, and Allison Antram, a high school junior girls leader at our Lexington Campus. Listen in as they talk about the spiritual practice of prayer. 

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. Does anyone have a cool story of an answered prayer? 
   1. How's it working in 2020? 
   2. What do you think your greatest challenge is with this practice? 
2. What is your current practice of prayer?
3. Any questions or prayers that you're wrestling with?

Resources:

How to Pray: A simple guide - link

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - link

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - link

Lectio 365 App - link

How to Pray the Examen 24/7 Prayer - link

Show Notes: 

Welcome to Season 2!  In this week's episode, Scott is joined by Kate Grounds, our NIC Middle School Girls Groups Pastor, and Ben MacGill our High School Guys Group Pastor at Nicholasville. Listen in as they talk about the spiritual practice of reading scripture. 

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. What does your practice of scripture reading look like right now? How did you get to that point?  How's it working in 2020? 
2. What difficulties do you face when it comes to the Bible (fear, confusion, boredom, skepticism, etc.)? 
3. How do you think your engagement with Scripture impacts your small group? 

Resources:

Core 52 - https://amzn.com/0525653252

The YouVersion Bible App - https://www.youversion.com/the-bible-app/

Southland Teaching Series - https://southland.church/watch/meat-potatoes

The Bible Project - https://thebibleproject.com/

NLT Application Study Bible - link

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. For those folks who have participated in one of our winter events, share about the weekend and how it impacted your group. 
2. Have you registered for winter retreat or winter weekend? If not, please go to southland.church/students/trips and register - it's free for leaders but it helps us as we order things like food and supplies.

In this week's episode, Scott is joined by our Georgetown Student Pastor, Ian Schweitzer to celebrate what's happened in Southland Students this year and discuss how our small group leaders can capitalize on Winter Break.

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. Give one win from this semester with your group.
2. Share an idea you have for Christmas break for your few. What would you like to hear on the podcast that we could discuss here in coach's time?

In this week's episode, Scott is joined by our high school girls groups pastors at our Nicholasville Campus, Kelly Hill, and Beth Gillock, a high school girls small group leader to discuss what it means to create a safe place by respecting the process.

Discussion Questions for Coaches Time: 

1. What're the craziest questions you've gotten from your group? 
2. Do your students ask questions about their faith in small group? If so what kinds of questions do they ask?
3. Where do you feel like your group is at with their faith? How can you challenge them to grow with where they are now?

We are shaping next semester's content for the Leader Podcast and would love to answer your questions.  If you have any thoughts on things you would like to have covered or questions you would like answers to, please send those to [email protected] and we will do our best to answer those!