Free Small Group Warm-Up (Ice Breaker) Questions
Fun Small Group Warm Up Questions:
1. What is your favorite New Year’s memory?
2. Who was your best friend growing up?
3. What was your first job?
4. What was your favorite pet growing up? What are your favorite memories of this pet?
5. What is your favorite Winter activity or childhood memory?
6. If you could travel anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go and why?
7. What was your favorite teacher or subject in school?
8. What was your favorite sport growing up?
9. What is your favorite card, board, or video game?
10.What is your favorite TV show ever?
11.What was the best book you ever read?
12.What is your favorite super hero? Super villain?
13.What is your favorite Easter activity or childhood memory?
14.Tell us about your worst haircut.
15.If you could eat anything for lunch what would it be?
16.What is your favorite song?
17.What is your favorite Spring activity or childhood memory?
18.What is your favorite movie?
19.If you had one day with no responsibilities, what would you do?
20.What is a life accomplishment that you proud of?
21.Who (other than God) made the biggest impact on your life?
22.What is the most embarrassing (but appropriate to share) thing you have ever done?
23.What is the best dessert or candy every created?
24.What is your favorite Summer activity or childhood memory?
25.What was something good that happened this past week?
26.What is your favorite church song to sing?
27.What did you dream about being when you grew up? What would be your dream job today?
28.If someone gave you $1,000,000 today, what would you do with it?
29.If you had to relocate and move far away, where would it be?
30.What is your favorite breakfast food?
31.If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one suitcase full of items, what would you want to have?
32.What is something you are good at?
33.If you could meet someone in history, who would it be?
34.Which cartoon or Disney character do you relate the best with?
35.Tell us a funny (but appropriate) joke.
36.What is your favorite Fall activity or childhood memory?
37.What phone emoji do you use the most?
38.What was your favorite toy growing up?
39.What is your favorite hobby?
40.What is the best piece of advice you ever received?
41.What is the best costume you ever dressed up in?
42.What is one thing you would want to be sure to do before you die?
43.What phone app do you use or like the most?
44.If you could be a professional athlete, what sport would you pick?
45.How would you want to be most remembered?
46.If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
47.What is your favorite season or holiday?
48.When your family gets together to eat, what is your favorite dish?
49.What is a unique or little known fact about you?
50.What is your favorite Christmas carol?
51.What was a special Christmas gift you received?
52.What is your favorite Christmas activity or childhood memory?
Christian Life Small Group Warm Up Questions:
1. What is a way you hope to grow spiritually in the year ahead?
2. When and how did God save you?
3. What is one of your favorite parts of your church family?
4. What is a spiritual milestone in your life?
5. What is one of the biggest challenges facing Christians today?
6. What is your favorite Bible verse and why?
7. What is a memorable time that God answered your prayers?
8. How are you seeing God grow you this year?
9. Who has been a spiritual mentor to you?
10.What is your favorite mission or ministry experience?
11.Which Bible character or story is your favorite?
12.If you could change something in your past, what would it be?
13.What Easter traditions help you remember and celebrate the true meaning of Resurrection Sunday?
14.How do you want to be remembered after you die?
15.If you could go on a mission trip today, where would you go?
16.What Bible book do you want to study and understand better?
17.How do you feel God has gifted you?
18.How has your study of the Bible improved over the years?
19.How can you free up more time in your day? Where are you wasting time?
20.When did God take a difficult season or situation and use it as a blessing?
21.What is an effective way you’ve found to share the Gospel with others?
22.How has your faith impacted your marriage or parenting?
23.How has your faith impacted you at work or school life?
24.If you could permanently change one part of yourself instantly, what would it be? Why?
25.If you could ask God one question to answer, what would it be and why?
26.What could we learn from how other denominations or cultures worship?
27. How do you think church will change over the next 10 years? 50 years?
28.What is something you are excited about in the next 12 months?
29.What is your favorite part about church? Why?
30.What is your favorite Christian song? Why?
31.If you could see one person in your life be saved, who would it be?
32.What do you think about miracles continuing today?
33.Do you have a favorite Christian app or website? How does it help you?
34.Who is your favorite Christian podcast or preacher?
35.What is your favorite Christian book or study?
36.What are some tips you would share with a new Christian about studying the Bible?
37.What are some tips you would share with a new Christian about prayer?
38.What are some tips you would share with a new Christian about church?
39.What are some tips you would share with a new Christian about marriage?
40.What are some tips you would share with a new Christian about parenting and family?
41.What are some times or ways you have seen God’s greatness and power through nature?
42.How are you seeing God work among the next generation?
43.How are you trying to share God’s truth and love with the next generation?
44.Who is on the top of your prayer list? Why?
45.What is a favorite memory of yours from growing up in church?
46.What sins do you see as dominating in popularity today? How can we best respond in truth and love?
47.Share a time when God grew you significantly (a mission trip, a retreat, a conference, a camp, a tough season, etc.)?
48.What is your biggest hope and prayer for the future of your church?
49.What is your biggest hope and prayer for your family?
50.What Christmas traditions help you remember and celebrate the true meaning of Jesus’ birth?
51.Looking back at the past year, what were some ways you grew spiritually?
52.Looking forward to the next year, what plans are you making to better love God and others?
Family Life Small Group Warm Up Questions:
1. Looking back at the past year, what was a family goal you feel you accomplished or made progress on? What is a goal you have for your family in the upcoming year?
2. Looking back at the past year, what was one of your favorite family memories? What sort of memories do you want to make in the year ahead?
3. What are some of your favorite things about your family? Least favorite things about your family?
4. How did discipline work in your family growing up? Did it work? What is discipline like in your family today? Is it fair? What would you change about it?
5. If you could go back in time and change something, what would you change and why?
6. If you could go forward in time and know something, what would you fast forward to find out?
7. Which family member had the biggest spiritual impact on you? Why? How?
8. If you were to prioritize three things to do before you died, what would it be and why?
9. If you could have one prayer answered in the future, what might it be?
10.What was a favorite food dish from your childhood family gatherings?
11.What was your favorite part of family gatherings growing up?
12.If you the Lord gave you 25 more years of life, what goals or hopes would you have for yourself in the future?
13.If you had to choose one of your five senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing) to lose, which one would you choose? Which sense would you never want to lose?
14.Which abilities do you fear losing as you age (memory, walking, etc.)?
15.If you were the leader of your country and could make one permanent change, what would you do?
16.If your house was on fire, what five things would you prioritize to get out of the house?
17.Would you rather be more famous, wealthier, more athletic, or more intelligent?
18.If you could tame and have any animal as a pet now, what would it be? What would you name it?
19.What is the craziest food you have ever tried? Would you eat it again?
20.Would you describe yourself as more of an introvert or extrovert?
21.What were the best three days in your life so far?
22.What was the most difficult three days in your life so far?
23.What is something about your future that you look forward to?
24.What is something about your future that scares you?
25.What was one of your favorite hobbies as a child?
26.What are some of your favorite memories of your mother? What spiritual influence did she have on you?
27.What are some of your favorite memories of your father? What spiritual influence did he have on you?
28.What was your relationship with your grandparents like when you were growing up? What sort of grandparent do you aim to be?
29.What are some of your favorite birthday memories? Family birthday traditions?
30.What is one of your earliest memories? Most impactful childhood memories?
31.What is one of your favorite family traditions? Why?
32.Do you have any siblings? If so, how did you all get along over the years? What are your relationships like now?
33.What were some of your favorite games to play growing up? Do you still play any of them today?
34.What were some of your favorite childhood hobbies? How did they impact or grow you? Do you continue any of these hobbies today?
35.Who were some of your childhood friends who had the biggest impact on you? Do you continue those friendships today?
36.Did you ever have to move between towns/cities as a child? What the hardest things about moving? What were the best things about moving?
37.What do you look forward to about growing older? What do you fear about aging?
38.What were your favorite things to do outdoors when you were growing up? What do you still enjoy to do outdoors? What do you not enjoy doing outdoors?
39.What are you most thankful to God for about your childhood?
40.What are you most thankful to God for about your family today?
41.How would you describe yourself in five words?
42.What was your first paying job like? What did you learn from it?
43.What were some of your biggest life lessons from school? From sports?
44.What was something difficult you did in life? How did you grow from it?
45.What is your favorite thing about the season of life you are in now? What is something difficult about this season?
46.If you could free up time in your weekly schedule, what would you remove? What would you add to your weekly schedule?
47.What are your best characteristics? Areas in which you’d like to improve?
48.Who has been a big encourager in your life? How did they encourage you?
49.Who in your family are you the most like? Which family member do you wish to be more like?
50.What are some characteristics of a good friend? How do you seek to be a good friend?
51.Would you consider yourself generous? How do you want to be more generous with your time, talents, and treasures?
52.When was a time you made a courageous stand? What was that like? How do you want to be more courageous in the future?
53.What are some characteristics of a good boss? A good employee? What was your best/worst boss like? Best/worst employee like?