2014
Leverage Work for God's Mission
Help your group members see work through a new lens.
Who's on Your Personal Board of Directors?
Find the right people to help you serve effectively in your sweet spot.
Find the Right Leaders for the Right Spots
How to identify, recruit, and place a variety of leaders
Help Your Leaders Understand Their Fivefold Gifts
Apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers can all serve in their sweet spot in small groups.
Serve in Your Sweet Spot
Lean into your personality, strengths, and gifts.
How Heather Zempel Marries Giftedness and Hard Work
Meet this pastor of discipleship serving in her sweet spot.
The Value of Shared Life
Why we need to value life-on-life relationships more
3 Tips for Your First Meeting
Make your first group meeting a success.
Give It One More Try
How to talk to small-group dropouts
Addressing a Leader's Sin Issue
10-step strategy for helping
When Leaders Become Ineffective
How to restore leaders to fruitfulness
Three Keys to Handling Tough Conversations
How to prepare and facilitate effectively
Do We Really Love Community as Much as We Say We Do?
What our response to difficult conversations says about our true values
Starting Over from Scratch
How we relaunched our small-group ministry
Small Groups in a Bilingual Church
How one multiethnic church structures small groups to reach their community
The Crack in Your Small-Group Ministry
8 tips to ensure that everyone who signs up for small groups gets connected
Resource Review: Transformational Groups
Research proves that small groups can lead to transformation.
My Small Group Saved My Marriage
How I experienced true transformation
Where Are the Mature Believers?
The disconnect between small groups and discipleship
Successful Discipleship in Small Groups
Proven ways to develop mature disciples