Articles for Small Group Leaders

1,000 people attended seeker small groups led by Southeast Christian Church and a dozen other Louisville-area churches. About 75 percent of the participants were unbelievers.

If you give introverts advance warning, we can often better prepare for conversation. We can gear up for it. Introversion impacts how we relate to others—not how we feel about them.

Rick Warren recently preached a sermon where he mentioned that Saddleback has added 3,000 groups during Covid-19. Saddleback started the year with around 6,000 groups. They now have about 9,000 groups. Wow.

Small groups often focus on fellowship or discipleship—but don't forget about evangelism or being a small group on mission.

Using examples from not-so-great small group leaders like "Billy Bible Scholar" to "Hannah Hostess," we can learn what is the role of great small group leaders.

It used to be that only a few people at the top had all the power. But two significant small group trends are changhing the leadership landscape.

You can identify and empower small group leaders when you help people connect in different kinds of ways. As a result, individuals who never saw themselves as a leader will take their first steps in serving as a community-building agent for the Kingdom of God!

Christian group identity, especially small group identity, answers the questions, ‘As followers of Jesus, what kind of people are we? How do the people of God act?'