Category Archives: Small Groups

Wranglers, Harleys & Groups

When I bought my first Jeep Wrangler, I didn’t realize that I was also buying into a very exclusive club. All of a sudden, every person driving a Wrangler would acknowledge me with a simple hand wave as we passed on the road. This never happened in the Cherokee or the Nissan. Nobody cared when

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4 Things To Do In July

In order to have a successful fall for groups, the planning has to happen in July. Here are 4 things that you can be working on now that will pay off in August. 1. Update your curriculum menu Spend some time going through your current groups curriculum choices. Is there anything that is outdated? Where

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It’s Time To Plan

It’s the end of May, and for most churches that means that activity for groups are slowing down. I want to emphasize that they are not stopping, but just shifting gears for the busy summer months. This is a great opportunity for groups pastors/directors to spend some time working on the ministry, not just in

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Go At Your Own Pace

This week, I decided to try out a circuit training class at the gym that I had not been to in a few months. The main reason that I quit going was that I wasn’t enjoying it because of the instructor. Every time I went, the instructor would spend half of time pointing out what

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Groups And Prayer

We continued our series, 5 Lies That We Believe, yesterday at Cross Point by looking at the lies that we believe about prayer. Through my years as a small group member/leader/Pastor, I have found that prayer is one of the trickiest parts of group meetings. The prayer time at the end of the meeting can

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It Takes A Tribe

I am in Dallas this week, hanging out with a group of churches at Leadership Network talking about the rapid growth that each church has seen and how it impacts their ministry. One of the comments, after an exercise yesterday, was how it was nice to hear other churches that are going through the same

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