The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry: A Troubleshooting Guide for Church LeadersZondervan, 2009 M08 30 - 256 pages Assessment and solution for seven commonobstacles to building small groups.It’s one thing to start a small group ministry. It’s another tokeep the groups in your church healthy and headed in thesame direction. Whatever your church’s approach maybe—whether it is a church with groups or of groups—sooner or later, as a leader, you’ll need to do sometroubleshooting. That’s when the expert, to-the-pointguidance in this book will prove its worth.The beauty of this book lies in its unique diagnosticprocess. It allows you to assess, diagnose, and correctseven common “deadly sins” that can drain the life fromyour church’s small group ministry.In The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry, whatwould take you years to learn through trial and error isdistilled into some of the most useful information you canfind. Drawing on the knowledge they’ve gleaned fromworking inside Willow Creek Community Church, fromconsulting with hundreds of churches, and fromconducting conferences and seminars worldwide, smallgroup experts Bill Donahue and Russ Robinson furnishyou with proven, real-life solutions to the toughestproblems in your small group ministry. This is not theory—it is hands-on material you can read and apply today. |
Contents
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Strategies and Tools for Developing Clear Ministry Objectives | 33 |
Lack of Point Leadership | 49 |
Strategies and Tools for Choosing Effective Point Leaders | 63 |
Poor Coaching Structures | 75 |
Strategies and Tools for Rebuilding Poor Coaching Structures | 89 |
Neglect of Ongoing Leadership Development 101 8 Strategies and Tools for Developing Leaders | 115 |
Closed Group MindSet | 127 |
Strategies and Tools for Transforming Group MindSet | 141 |
Narrow Definition of a Small Group | 153 |
Strategies and Tools for Broadening the Range of Small Groups | 167 |
Neglect of the Assimilation Process | 185 |
Strategies and Tools for Improving Assimilation 199 Conclusion | 213 |
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