1. Operation Connect: Exploring Hospitality Tips For Getting To Know Someone (Without ‘Giving Them The Third Degree’)

2. Start Watching The Clip

3. Your Gut Reaction... Can you recall any especially one- sided conversations in which you’ve felt interrogated or bombarded with questions?

4. Your Gut Reaction... What tips can you share from your own experience about getting to know someone without coming on too impatient or pushy?

5. Continue Watching The Clip

6. Chewing It Over... The analogy of a working together on a puzzle may or may not work for you. But what attitude does it suggest we adopt as we seek to build and deepen relationships?

7. Chewing It Over... What hurdles do you find stand in the way of you relaxing as you try to get to know someone—e.g., someone who is a visitor to church?

8. Finish Watching The Clip

9. Digesting The Meal... 1. Brainstorm a few questions or one- liners that you reckon you could use to naturally kick-start fact exchange with someone you’ve just met.

10. Digesting The Meal... 2. One of the best stories to get good at telling is the story of your own faith journey. Take a few minutes (and maybe jot down some notes) and cast your mind over...

11. (a) Which people and groups have played major parts in your journey? (b) What were two or three key turning points along the way? After you’ve answered these questions for yourself, take 30 seconds to tell your story to the person sitting next to you. Digesting The Meal...

12. 3. People don’t often talk openly about what they value and believe. But they do talk about: What gets them excited or passionate, What they need advice about, and What frustrates or disappoints them

13. Digesting The Meal... Think back over conversations you’ve had recently (e.g, last week). What do you feel the things people have got excited about, asked advice about, or complained about, say about what they value and believe?