Delegate leadership responsibilities and serve together to build group unity.
by Life Together
If you lead a small group study, you have a servant's heart. As a group leader, your desire is to develop this same heart in the members of your group.
How do you build a muscle? You build it by using it. Similarly, you need to build the servant's heart by working it.
One way to do this is by rotating leadership. Think about the gifts and abilities of your group members. At the end of your meeting, ...
Here are some things to keep in mind when money isn't a factor.
by Nancy Beach
Since many of us who serve in ministry end up leading volunteers, the editors at Gifted for Leadership wanted to find out how leading volunteers differed from leading paid staff. So we asked Nancy Beach, a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church as well as a GFL editorial advisor, who has vast experience in leading staff, volunteers, and the staff who lead volunteers.
While our households often reflect popular television shows, God has a better plan for us.
Too often the lives of Christians look just like the rest of the world's, reflecting popular television shows like Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover, The Apprentice, and CSI. This four-part course will look at how we can live radically different lives that take time for meaningful relationships, reorient our ideas of success, make us an apprentice of Christ, and let us face our doubts.
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