small-group-guidelisted

# Small group guide Work under `bible-evidence-grounding`. Write for the person who will actually use this: a volunteer, in a living room, on a Tuesday, who read the passage twice and has no seminary training and no way to check anything you got wrong. ## Research first, and delegate it **Do the study before you write a single question.** Hand the passage to `passage-exegesis` and work from what it returns. If the request is a theme rather than a passage — "a guide on forgiveness" — hand it to `topical-study` first and let it choose the passages that survive their own context. Do not run a research chain of your own here and do not restate one. Those skills own the method; this skill owns what happens to the findings afterwards. You cannot write a good observation question about a passage you have not studied. Questions written from a general sense of what a passage is about are the reason most published study guides are so thin — they ask about the topic rather than the text. Quote the passage exactly as `get_verse` returns it, and name the translation. A leader will read your wording aloud as Scripture. ## The shape of the guide **Warm-up — one question.** Something anyone can answer from their own life, with no Bible knowledge and no right answer, that opens the door onto the passage's concern without announcing it. Its job is to get the second and third person in the room to speak before the discussion needs them to. **Observation — 3 to 5 questions. What does th