Adult Small Group Resources
Small groups for adults are becoming a staple
of church ministry to adults in churches across the country. This
is a positive thing, necessary thing, but in far too many churches, small
groups are just the same people getting together for fellowship and to
work through a book or Scripture passage. Community - real community
is rare to find in far too many small groups. While there are many
resources for small groups to utilize, I am completely delighted to be
able to review and highly recommend the following "system" for creating
real small groups of genuine community in churches of any size!
| Doing Life Together
Small Group Video Curriculum |
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Together |
God's Family |
Be Like Christ |
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SHAPE to Serve Others |
Mission Every Day |
Your Life For God's Pleasure |
- Favorite Features:
- complete dvd sessions
- training for how to lead a real small group
- how to involve people
- how to prepare
- how to utilize worship in small group setting
- variety of ways to make your group safe - THIS IS ESSENTIAL - tremendous
- encouragement for leaders
- Leader Lifters - explain how to develop real community to connect people with life together promises from the five purposes for life
- dvd tutorial - explains how to utilize curriculum
- Doing Life Together Video Promo
- for the entire series
- for leaders
- for each study
- interactive small group curriculum
- teaching portion on dvd utilizes some of the best teachers available
- Leadership Lifter -
- introduction for each session
- thoughts from each session speaker as to what they hope is the result for participants
- overview of series and sessions
- ideas to make your session real
- ideas on how to involve your group members in reading God's Word, journaling, memorizing Scripture and reading the Purpose Driven Life - a chapter a week
- encourages developing spiritual partnerships
- each session includes -
- song, testimony or drama to start and focus participants on the topic
- connecting questions to get people thinking
- introduction to the session teacher
- Scripture to begin with
- growing - Scripture to read and questions to work through
- sharing questions
- surrendering questions
- worship lifter provides unique insight and opportunity to integrate worship in your small group time
- video worship song with nature shots and words to encourage praising God in worship time together - phenomenal video!
- connect words, sound and sight for more complete and real worship time
- worship leader segment
- information/tips to help worship leader lead their group deeper in worship
- each participant book includes -
- introduction clearly walks through each part
- six sessions per topic -
- personal story that relates to topic
- questions to help you connect with each other
- Scripture and questions to help you grow
- challenge to share your mission and invite others
- surrendering by spending time in prayer
- study notes
- Purpose-driven life reading plan
- frequently asked questions and answers
- Purpose-driven group agreement
- small group attendance calendar
- Purpose Team roles
- Purpose-driven Life Health Assessment
- Purpose-driven Life Health Plan
- Spiritual Partners Check in Page
- Daily Devotional Readings
- Purpose-driven Life Reading Plan
- prayer/praise report
- Leadership training
- small group leadership lifters - weekly tips
- Leader's Notes -
- session goals
- questions
- information on the Authors
- small group roster
- sample journal page