Small Group Leaders Blogs

5 Ways to “Mix It Up” in Your Small Group Ministry

There are many ways to help people find small groups.

Content and Application

by Jeff Tunnell Last evening I dialogued with a long-term educator and school principal. We conversed about learning methods and how evidence shows that lecture...

Pastoral Care and Cells

by Jim Wall I remember the day I read Exodus 18:21-23 with understanding. I was pastoring a growing church; trying to preach all of the...

Connecting the Gap Between Community and Congregation

If you’ve been along for any length of time, you know that I love a good diagram.  Give me a whiteboard or a flipchart…or...

Old Wine in New Wineskins Doesn’t Work

Over the last 40 years, authors and preachers have commonly used Jesus' parable of the wineskins to argue for new ways of being and...

Discipleship: The Foundation for Quality and Quantity

I once heard a pastor say that a healthy couple has to take precautions NOT to reproduce life. The same can be said for...

Mike Breen on Missional Communities, Part 1

Mike Breen is one of the most prominent leaders in an important grouplife trend referred to as missional community.  Formerly the Senior Rector at...

Questions to Ask When You’ve Grown Stagnant

If something doesn’t move for a while, it usually gets stiff or stagnant.  There are times in every leader's life where we get stuck...