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Why Your Small Group Should Be Fun
The process of leading a small group can sometimes take all of the fun out of it. After all, think about all of the administration details you have to deal with. Where will the group meet? What day of...
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Five Things to Do When There’s a Breakup in Your Group
Dealing with the aftermath of a broken relationship within a small group can be extremely tricky for a leader. It would be easy for group members to choose sides and splinter the group. But the way...
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Top Five Questions Every Small Group Leader Has
Every small group leader has questions. Most have lots of questions. It can be intimidating to take on the leadership of a group, but you can be assured that (almost) every small group leader has the...
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Capturing the Momentum of Easter for Groups
The timing of Easter Sunday this year provides a unique opportunity for small groups. When Easter is later on the calendar, it’s difficult for newly formed groups to get traction before the summer...
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4 Things to Do With Your Group Before Summer
Easter has come and gone, and now the countdown is on for summer vacations and activities to kick in. The temptation for a lot of leaders at this point would be to mail in these last few weeks and...
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Three Types of Leader Training
Summer is a perfect season to work on the ministry and not just in it. We have a little bit of breathing room before the fall groups semester kicks in, so this is the time to re-examine all aspects of...
View Article3 Distinctions of a Biblical Small Group [Video Post]
[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT] Okay, today I want to talk about having a purpose for your small group. Your small group can be about a lot of things and if we’re not careful, they can just become social clubs and...
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Six Questions to Ask Before Launching Groups This Fall
The end of summer is just a month away, and that means it’s time to plan for launching new groups for the fall semester. The odds are good that your church will have new people showing up in August...
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Four Vital Questions for Planning the Future
When I am taking time to work on a system, I like to think in frameworks with key questions. Asking those probing questions forces issues to the surface that we would have never discussed without...
View ArticleDiscipleship Movement [Video Post]
Video Transcript Last time we talked about the three distinctives of every small group, the three things that your group should be about, if you have a purpose. They were about creating disciples,...
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Now What? Five Things a New Leader Should Do Next
Stepping out to start a new group can be an intimidating and scary experience. All of us have the same questions starting out: Will anyone show up? Have I invited the right people? Have I picked the...
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How to Have Effective Small Groups [Free Webinar]
I hear from churches and pastors consistently about how small groups no longer work in our modern world. People are too busy for another weekly commitment. Groups organized by the church are too...
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Stop Making Resolutions
I am not a big fan of January. It’s not necessarily because of the cloudy skies and painful cold where I live. And it’s not completely because January feels like this month-long let down after two...
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Small Group Ice Breakers
Whether your small group will be brand new in 2019 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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Three Reasons Why Men 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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Five Keys to Helping your New Group Last the Whole Year
Stepping out to start a new small group can be a scary experience. All of us have the same questions starting out: Will anyone show up? Have I invited the right people? Have I picked the right study?...
View ArticleFree Online Cohort
We can all benefit from spending time with other ministry leaders asking the same questions we are. That is why I am launching a free online cohort for church small groups point people. There will be...
View ArticleMore Questions every Small Group Leader Has
Every small group leader has questions. Most have lots of questions. It can be intimidating to take on the leadership of a group, but you can be assured that (almost) every small group leader has the...
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Free Groups Webinar
Can small groups really work in smaller size churches? That is the topic that we are going to tackle in this free webinar on March 19, 2019, 11am – 12pm CST. Here are a few of the questions that...
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Leading Small Groups
After finishing the book, Small Groups for the Rest of Us, in 2015, I wasn’t sure that I would ever desire to write another full-length book. Writing a book is a grueling experience, and unless you...
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