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    Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide
    Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide
    Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide
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    Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide

    By Henry Cloud and Bill Donahue

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    Whether you’re a new or seasoned group leader, or whether your group is well-established or just getting started, this four-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) will lead you and your group together to a remarkable new closeness and effectiveness. Designed to foster healthy group interaction and facilitate maximum growth, this innovative approach equips both group leaders and members with essential skills and values for creating and sustaining truly life-changing small groups.

    Designed for use with the Making Your Small Group Work Video Study (sold separately).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJun 5, 2013
    ISBN9780310687481
    Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide
    Author

    Henry Cloud

    Dr. Henry Cloud is a clinical psychologist, pastor to pastors, and New York Times bestselling author. His 45 books, including the iconic Boundaries, have sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Throughout his storied career as a clinician, he started treatment centers, created breakthrough new models rooted in research, and has been a leading voice on issues of mental health and leadership on a global scale. Dr. Cloud lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Tori, and their two daughters, Olivia and Lucy.  

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      Making Your Small Group Work Participant's Guide - Henry Cloud

      Participant’s Guide

      Making Your Small Group Work

      Henry Cloud

      Bill Donahue

      John Townsend

      Dedication

      To all those who are seeking community, growth, and the life of God through small groups.

      May God bless you.

      table of Contents

      Title Page

      Introduction

      Video Group Members

      Participant’s Guide

      Session One: Getting Connected—God’s Purpose for Small Groups

      Session Two: Five Habits of Life-Changing Groups

      Session Three: Setting Ground Rules

      Session Four: Determining Your Group’s Purpose

      Tip One: Active Listening

      Tip Two: Being Attentive

      Tip Three: Telling Your Story (Without Going On and On)

      Tip Four: Group Check-In #1

      Tip Five: Asking Good Questions

      Tip Six: Calling Out the Best in Others

      Tip Seven: Giving and Receiving Feedback

      Tip Eight: Helping and Supporting Each Other

      Tip Nine: Responding to Someone Who Is Hurting

      Tip Ten: Helping Others Take Growth Risks

      Tip Eleven: Prayer

      Tip Twelve: Group Check-In #2

      Tip Thirteen: Confessing Your Faults

      Extended Tip One: When Groups Get Messy,

      Part 1—Confrontation

      Extended Tip Two: When Groups Get Messy,

      Part 2—Conflict Resolution

      Extended Tip Three: Dealing with People in Crisis

      Resources for Digging Deeper

      What We Noted

      The Five Habits

      Our Group

      Acknowledgments

      Author Biographies

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      introduction

      Welcome to Making Your Small Group Work! You are about to embark on a revolutionary journey into what it means to be a safe, caring, and helpful small group community. Making Your Small Group Work is a learning process, an environment where you will discover how to grow in faith as you build authentic relationships and accomplish the purpose for which you gathered.

      The Making Your Small Group Work material is designed for the whole group, not just the leader. As you all participate in creating a healthy group environment, everyone benefits. If you do not have a designated leader, Making Your Small Group Work will provide the initial guidance and structure to help you form a meaningful group experience and move ahead. If you have an official leader, that person has already taken a level of responsibility to provide some guidance. But research shows successful groups work alongside their leaders and share responsibility for members’ needs and the group’s outcomes. So do your best to participate in the process of personal and group growth. The group needs you—and you need the group.

      As a teaching and training tool, Making Your Small Group Work is more than simply a series of lectures. It is designed to bring you the practical insights of Henry Cloud, Bill Donahue, and John Townsend by using training talks, creative dramas, and small group experiences which will guide you in becoming an effective group.

      If this is your first group experience, this material will lead you one step at a time, helping you develop the relational environment in which groups thrive. If you have had other group experiences, chances are you need a refresher course—or maybe you were never exposed to some of these ideas. It is good to take a few meetings and make sure the whole group is on track—whether you are a newcomer or an experienced small group person.

      Perhaps a few of you are skeptical because you had a poor group experience in the past—in church, at work, or with a volunteer organization. It might have been the leader, or the group process, or maybe the curriculum, or the members—or all of the above. No group is perfect. But in many cases, groups fail simply because no one ever helps them discover how to really be a group.

      Learning to be an effective group is just as important as the material your group is studying. We believe that as you learn the skills and processes for developing a meaningful group experience, you will experience spiritual growth and be able to use your materials more effectively. Whether you are a Bible study, a prayer group, a ministry team, a work group, or a home group, Making Your Small Group Work is designed to help you connect deeply, focus on your purpose, grow in life skills, and become a powerful community for transformation.

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