Articles for Small Group Leaders

How To Turn Sermons Into Small Group Studies

When you think about your sermon files, digital, analog, or otherwise, you are loaded with content. But, how do you repurpose your vast content into small group studies?

How Emotional Force Fields Can Impact Your Small Group

I learned about the concept of force fields. In the same way every leader and pastor carries with him or her their own emotional force fields.

The Need for Advanced Discipleship

Advanced discipleship training serves the most underserved people in the church: people who reach a midway point in their maturity but don’t get to “the other side.”

8 Practical Ways To Encourage Others in Your Small Group

We need people who speak hope and build confidence into our lives so that we can consistently live in a manner that’s worthy of the Gospel of Christ. This is why God commands us to encourage others and build each other up.

7 Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry

The consequences almost always affect unconnected people, group leaders and group members.

Disruptions of Community – Why Differences Destroy Some Small Groups

Here in America politics has caused disruption between and within communities. It reminds us that differences in opinions can grow into disruptions of community.

Why the Hardest Work Is Heart Work

Heart work—the work of developing yourself—is actually the hardest work you’ll ever do. And it’s also the most rewarding.

4 Essentials for a Small Group Pastor

What are the not-to-miss small group pastor essentials? Here are 4 key insights for rookies from a veteran small group point person