Small Group Leadership TIPS of the past 2 weeks as Tweeted, posted on the Small Group Leadership Facebook page, and posted on LinkedIn. (Last week I taught a one-week "intensive" Small Group Ministry and Discipleship seminary class at Cincinnati Christian...
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TIPS
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the Week: December 21-25, 2015
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the past week as Tweeted, posted on the Small Group Leadership Facebook page, and posted on LinkedIn. * * * * * * *Monday, 12/21: Encourage every person in your group to pray every day...
TIPS
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the Week: 11/16-20/2015
Small Group Leadership TIPS of the past week as Tweeted, posted on the Small Group Leadership Facebook page, and posted on LinkedIn. * * * * * * *Monday, 11/16: Do you feel free? Forgiven? Loved? Do you have peace?...
Small Group Leaders
4 Reasons Leaders Don’t Pray More for their Groups
Praying leaders have faster growing groups. That's not just speculation or theory. It's a fact backed by research. This morning, I read and nodded my head through Jim Egli's newest post, "4 Reasons Why Praying Leaders Have Faster Growing...
SG Movement/History
The Beginnings of Small Groups.com
I was sitting in a small groups seminar in 1993, mesmerized by Lyman Coleman as he stood by his overhead projector, training leaders as nobody else could. This is good stuff, I thought, but what will these folks do when...
Small Group Leaders
How and When to Launch a Small Group: The Role of the Holy Spirit, Prayer, Laundry Rooms, Swimming Pools, and Game Nights
Right after Heidi and I got married, we moved into a forty-unit apartment building. We wanted to start a small group to reach out to the people who lived there who did not have a relationship with God, but we...
Small Group Leaders
Small Group Fireplaces #5: Prayer Produces Growth
Provide the right environment, and growth happens.For my four children–all now teens and young adults–growth is natural. As long as their mom and I provided the right conditions–good nutrition, a safe environment, opportunities for exercise, as well as schooling, spiritual...
Small Group Leaders
Small Group Fireplaces: #4 – Group Members Pray for One Another
When you add another log to the fire, you know what happens. It is soon ablaze itself and it eventually helps keep the other logs burning as well. But the log must be touching the other logs. Set a fresh...
Small Group Leaders
Small Group Fireplaces Series: #3 – Groups Pray
When groups pray together, it's like adding logs to the fire.This is part three of a blog series I'm calling "Small Group Fireplaces." In Part One, I stated that small groups can be the fireplace, or the environment, where revival...
Small Group Leaders
Small Group Fireplaces Series: #2 – Leaders Pray
Small groups have no more chance of initiating revival or transforming people's lives than an empty fireplace has of starting a fire. Your small group should be a fireplace--an environment where God will do what only he can do in...