There is something very basic and drawing about hearing a good story. The Bible is filled with story after story because life at its most basic level is broken down into a series of past events that are told and retold in each generation. Often the things that are best remembered about a sermon or [...]
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I am really excited to say that there have been over 1000 small group lesson downloads here at Kingdom Living. That probably has something to do with showing up in the top ten on google under both “Small group lessons” and “Free Small Group Lessons” and only one step away from making it ahead of [...]
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In line with the last post about five characteristics of a good teacher, here are five characteristics of a good small group leader.
They know the purposes of the group and continually model and teach the group to carry out those purposes. Small group leaders are volunteers and they, like the rest of us, often have [...]
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It is time to review some curriculum for our small groups for next year and for some future Bible classes. What I have in front of me includes small group curriculum from Northpoint, Tommy Nelson’s Song of Solomon series, the marriage material from Focus on the Family and Houston Heflin’s small group lessons - Gifts [...]
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I wanted to highlight some small group material done by a good friend of mine Houston Heflin. Houston knows a lot about education and ministry and has developed several series of lessons. His website is called Prepare to Grow. Below are links to some samples of each of his lesson series.
(Download Sample lesson from Exodus: [...]
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I posted to the Small Group Lessons page at the top of this blog a new series on Practical Christian Living. There are currently 10 lessons with 4 more on the way.
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Dave Treat over at the Willow Creek Association Group Life Blog gives a three part series on How to Assimilate Members and Visitors into a Small group system.
Part One - Deals with whether or not there is a well defined system in place.
Part Two - Deals with the four types of church goers who make [...]
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This is a copy of the Small Group Resources from the top of Kingdom Living. What links would you add that you have found helpful for small groups?
Small Group Curriculum:
Prepare to Grow offers lessons on a variety of topics and books of the Bible.
Lessons by me (Book of Acts, Prayer, Ministry of Jesus)
- Feel free [...]
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Homeostasis - a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group - Webster’s Dictionary
We tend to gravitate toward the things we are most comfortable with. We are most comfortable with the things we have done [...]
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I have been hesitant to post this but I will go ahead and do it. I have been developing our LIFE group curriculum at church since the summer. You can download these lessons here. Feel free to use them however you want. We have also implemented another helpful idea for any of you who run [...]
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