Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to KnowLead small groups through astounding growth with principles from the best-selling books How People Grow and Boundaries.No matter what need brings a group of people together—from marriage enrichment to divorce recovery, from grief recovery to spiritual formation—members are part of a small group because they want to grow. This book by psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend provides small-group leaders with valuable guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. With insights from their best-selling book How People Grow, Cloud and Townsend show how God’s plan for growth is made up of three key elements: grace plus truth plus time. When groups embrace those elements, they find God’s grace and forgiveness and learn how to handle their imperfections without shame as they model God’s love and support to one another.In addition to describing what makes small groups work, Leading Small Groups That Help People Grow explains the roles and responsibilities of both leaders and group members. Employing tenets from the book How People Grow, this book equips leaders to understand the ins and outs of how to promote growth, and using principles from their best-selling book Boundaries, they show how to identify and find solutions for common problems such as boredom, noncompliance, passivity, aggression, narcissism, spiritualization, over-neediness, over-giving, and nonstop talking. |
Other editions - View all
Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know Henry Cloud,John Townsend No preview available - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
accept Adam and Eve appropriate areas aware become behavior better biblical Boundaries bring Chapter church Cloud and Dr codependent confess confrontation connected connectedness context Corinthians created deal develop emotional empathy Ephesians example experienced facilitator failure fear feel gifts goals God's grace and forgiveness grace and truth grief ground rules group experience group helps group members group process grow happen healing heart help members honest hurt important involved issue Jesus John Townsend kids listening lives look loss marriage materials means members learn ministry narcissism NASB needy ourselves pain parenting patterns Perfect Group perfect law person Pharisees problem reality receive feedback relationships Remember responsibility rience risk role safe safety share small group leaders someone sometimes spiritual growth stance structure struggle sure talk tasks tell Thessalonians things topic Townsend understand