LEADER GUIDE Switch: At the Movies

Week 3

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

The Point God can use others to help us during trials.

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 identify if their friends would help them through hard times and also to think through if they are also that type of friend.

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 on The Scorch Trials? What did 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. Tell about a time your friends helped you through a hard time. How were they able to help you?

7. Tell about a time when you helped your friends through a hard time. How were you able to help them?

8. Read Ecclesiastes 4:9-10,12 out loud together.

9. What do you think that passage means and is talking about?

10. How can you do better at being there for your friends when they go through trials?

1. What did you think of this week’s message on The Scorch Trials? What did you like? What stood out to you most? What did you learn?

2. Tell about a hard time or trial you’ve had to go through. How did you get through it?

3. Tell about a time your friends helped you through a hard time. How were they able to help you?

4. Tell about a time when you helped your friends through a hard time. How were you able to help them?

5. Would you say you have friends who do the three things we talked about today? Why or why not? If so, give examples? (The three things were: 1. A community to fight for you 2. Accountability to guard you 3. Leading you where God wants you to be)

6. What does it look like to have friends who will fight for you?

7. What does it mean and look like to have friends who will hold you accountable?

8. What would it look like for your friends to lead you where God wants you to be?

9. Read John 16:33 out loud together.

10. What do you think that passage means and is talking about? How can you apply it to your life?

11. How can you do better at being there for your friends when they go through trials?

Lead Small Challenge your small group to become the great type of friends even outside of small group. Encourage them, and help lead them to be friends who fight for each other, hold each other accountable, and lead each other in the right direction.