Icebreakers

Need an icebreaker. This is simple and can be used with a group of 8. They pick a number and then you ask the question related to that number. Start with set one and keep moving on, the questions get gradually ‘deeper’.

Set One

1. Describe what you would do on your ideal holiday?
2. What do you daydream about?
3. If you could have what you really wanted in life, what would it be?
4. What would you do, if you knew you couldn’t fail?
5. Describe your favourite way of spending your leisure time?
6. If I could smash one thing, and only one thing, I would smash…
7. My favourite time in the year is…
8. My favourite time in the day is…

1. What would you most like to do to be remembered in history?
2. What kind of social gathering do you like best?
3. Describe the most excitingly creative person you have known?
4. What would you most like to do or be for the next five years if there were no limitations?
5. What do you find most boring and unenjoyable about your life?
6. The time I feel most alive is…
7. The time I feel most alone is…
8. What do you most trust in?

1. Is God real to you and if so, when did he become real to you?
2. When do you feel closest to God?
3. When has God seemed furthest away from you?
4. What is the most vivid experience of prayer you have had?
5. What does ‘faith’ mean to you personally?
6. How do you endeavour to show your love to God?
7. What do you most want God to do for you?
8. What do you find hardest to believe about God?

Set Two

1. My favourite subject at school is/was?
2. What food do you dislike most?
3. What is your favourite food?
4. My favourite music is…
5. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
6. What present would you most like to receive?
7. My favourite programme/film/series is?
8. My favourite place in the house is?

1. What is your happiest memory?
2. Describe your ideal friend?
3. Tell who you are?
4. What is the best book you have ever read?
5. What is your most valued possession?
6. The thing I fear the most is…
7. If I had £10 million to use for the benefit of people, I would use the money to…
8. What makes you feel depressed?

1. What things make or keep your life complicated?
2. Who is Jesus?
3. How do you feel about God?
4. Describe what you think when you hear the word ‘church’.
5. Should we love everyone?
6. Do you think God is fair?
7. Do you believe in aliens?
8. What does the word sin mean to you?

Set Three

1. If I could visit any place in the world on holiday, I would go to…
2. The three things I am best at…
3. The greatest discovery I would like to make is…
4. Describe your most embarrassing moment!
5. The thing that gives me greatest satisfaction is…
6. How do you feel about money?
7. What person has been the most influential in your life?
8. Who is the most authentic person you have met?

1. The greatest value in my life at the moment is…
2. Who has most changed your life?
3. Whose approval do you need the most?
4. What is your most satisfying accomplishment?
5. What gives you self-respect?
6. What disturbs you most about the misuse of the physical resources of the world?
7. What do you find to be the worst pressures and strains in your life?
8. Tell your three strongest and your three weakest points?

1. What kind of person makes a good listener?
2. At what time in your life has God seemed most real to you?
3. What one question above all others do you want God to answer?
4. What kind of person do you confide in?
5. The greatest crime one person can commit against another is…
6. What makes a good relationship?
7. What kind of things make you irritated/angry?
8. What feelings do you have trouble expressing/controlling?

And finally, some bonus questions that will eventually grow into set four. Please let me know in the comments if you have any to add.

• What are your ambitions and goals?
• How do you feel about the salary or reward you get for work or school?
• How do you feel about people at school or work?
• What do you find most satisfying?
• What are your long term goals?
• What are your short term goals?
• What does your personal freedom mean to you?
• Describe the most significant event in your life?
• What things make life simple?