Find out how group members would respond to difficult situations.
by Tami Rudkin
Write these different scenarios on index cards and then pass them out randomly to people in your group. Give everyone a few minutes to think of a response, and then have people share their answers one by one. Allow the group to help if someone gets stuck.
What would you do if you knew a co-worker was being treated unfairly?
What would you do if your best friend was treating his or her children too harshly in front of others?
Use this practical tool to determine the childcare options in your small group.
by Michael Mack
Every church's small-group ministry is different. So is every small group. That's why we all need to think through the choices that will work best in our individual situations. If you plan ahead, the right childcare option can open up great opportunities for your small group instead of becoming a burden.Â
1. What is the childcare policy for your group?
[ ] No children are present except for nursing ...
The lecture/lab model is great for both small groups and Sunday mornings.
Larry Osborne
Note: This article has been excerpted from the SmallGroups.com training tool called Sermon-Based Small Groups.
At North Coast Church, where I serve as senior pastor, we've had a long and interesting journey with small groups. We had no groups when we first started out. But after a while, I began to realize that our congregation was more of a crowd than a living, breathing community. So we launched ...
Understanding how people learn gives you a better shot at teaching them.
Scottie May
Remember that course in college when you said, "Wow! That was incredible. I can't believe how much I learned." Then there was that other class that left you feeling flat, bored, and not sure that you learned a thing. Or the time your spouse loved the well constructed, carefully outlined talk that was accompanied by succinct power point slides of the key points—but you yawned the whole time. ...
This five-session course provides a discussion on sex for parents.
Few topics are more terrifying to the Christian parent than sex, since we know that we must teach our teens to go against the flow of society in this extremely tempting area. To assist you in this, we have created a five-session course, which helps you not only talk to your teens about sex, but also to mentor them in Christ and boost their confidence in him. We have also created a companion series ...
View the Ten Commandments as self-revelations from God, and how he wants our lives to change by knowing him.
A.W. Tozer says in The Knowledge of the Holy, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." The Ten Commandments are still relevant 3,500 years after they were first given at Mount Sinai. The major function of the Ten Commandments is to reveal who God is. Who someone is can best be understood by knowing what matters most to him. Obeying these commands from ...
This study is created for anyone with questions about the accuracy of the bible.
How can we know whether our Bible is truly the Word of God? We've put together three studies that help address this subject. This course will move you toward confidence that this is a book you can set your life by. These studies draw from the Bible and church history to defend the Scriptures from critics and deepen our understanding of Christianity's sacred text. It also covers whether or not the ...
Think through tough parenting issues from family planning, to educating your children, to dealing with behavioral problems.
The following 6-week course will help you and your group think through tough parenting issues from family planning, to educating your children, to dealing with behavioral problems.
Week One
Who's Teaching the Children? Biblical literacy begins in the home.
Week Two
Is Family Planning Okay? The contraceptive mentality says children are something to be avoided. We're not buying it.
Gain a biblical understanding of key Christian doctrines from today's leading sources.
The word theology is derived from two Greek words: Theos (God) and logos (speech or reason). Therefore, theology in its simplest terms is rational discussion about God. It has been described as "the science of God and his relationship to man and the world" and "the attempt to reduce religious truth to an organized system." Systematic theology is any study that answers the question, "What does the ...
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