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How to Launch New Groups and Grow This Fall
Studies show launching new groups can be a growth engine for your church. But starting groups without a clear strategy is a recipe for chaos and disappointing results. As you gear up to launch new...
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How Balanced Is Your Discipleship Diet?
When I decided to lose weight and get in shape a few years ago, I started off with a low carb diet that suggested I eat eggs and black beans every morning. I will be honest, before starting this diet...
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Five Things Your New Leaders Need To Hear
Fall is the perfect time to launch new small groups in your church. The most successful group campaigns will take place when people are settling back into their normal routines after the chaos of...
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Four Reasons Why Pastors Need Community
We all need community. In fact, we were designed by God to be in community. You can see it modeled for us with the perfect relationship of the Trinity in Genesis. Then God said, “Let Us make man in...
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Three Things Every Miraculous Group Leader Needs
Every time Jesus makes someone more like Himself, it is a miracle. If we are honest about our own hearts we will admit that discipleship is truly miraculous. If your church has decided that...
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Five Things To Think About As You Launch Your Campaign
The new year is a time when a lot of churches launch campaigns to help align their small groups around the same emphasis. The campaign gets everyone on the same discipleship page, and builds...
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Five Things To Consider After Your Campaign
If you decided to launch a church-wide study with your small groups this year, you’re probably just getting started or in the middle of that campaign. Now is the time to plan for what is next. The...
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Four Ways To Connect People Into Groups After Easter
I can almost guarantee that your church will have unconnected people in it on Easter Sunday. In fact, most churches will have record attendance on that day, but we rarely plan for how to help those...
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Should Groups Stop For The Summer?
Now that the school year is almost over, baseball is in full swing, and pools are open for business, your church’s small groups are starting to calculate whether to continue meeting over the next...
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Four Activities Your Groups Can Do This Summer
Summer is officially here and that means your small group meeting schedule will probably get interrupted for the next three months–and that’s ok. We all need seasonal changes of pace to keep things...
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The Power of Silence In a Small Group
We are afraid of silence. Especially as small group leaders. If there is silence in the room, then that means no one is talking. And if no one is talking, then we are surely failing as facilitators....
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Start The School Year Off Right
Everyone is about to be at your church at the same time. At least, that’s how it will feel when school starts back in August. It can get depressing for church leaders to see lower numbers in church...
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Fall Is Perfect For Community
Who doesn’t love the fall season? College and pro football games are back. The air is a little more crisp in the morning. Sweaters and boots can finally come out of the boxes in the attic. It’s a...
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Tackle Your Goals As A Group
The new year always brings feelings of hope and excitement for what’s possible in the next season of life. There’s nothing specifically different about the actual day or month, but we often use it to...
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Four Ways to Show Hospitality In Your Group
Because God has shown us hospitality through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, we are to mirror that through our love for one another. This is the essence of the gospel. I don’t know a better...
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Starting Your New Group
By agreeing to be a group leader, you have taken on the critical task of shepherding a portion of the congregation. With prayer and proper preparation, your group will be an environment where...
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Icebreakers For Your First Meeting
Whether your small group will be brand new in 2018 or you have been meeting for awhile, a good icebreaker question or activity is a great way to get the conversation going at that first meeting in...
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Four Steps to Becoming a Serving Small Group
One of the churches in which I served sat on an interesting place geographically. The side of the main road where the building sat was quickly gentrifying: grand homes were being restored and flipped...
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The Power of Authenticity
A common fear for almost every small group leader is not being “good enough” to be considered a leader in a church-based community. After all, how can I live up to the high standards of biblical...
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Seven Myths About Small Groups
Although church sponsored small groups have been around for awhile, there are still misconceptions about what they are–or are not. With that in mind, here are seven popular myths that I hear about...
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