Sometimes we expect our small group leaders to faithfully go about their ministry no matter what—always there, always ready to serve... essentially emotionless reliable small-group-leading AIs.
A set of five evangelistic studies, all based in Mark's Gospel, designed to present the Christian gospel in a one-to-one Bible study setting. This version interacts with the highly popular The Aussie Bible (by Kel Richards).
In this short course, we’ll think through the 'why' and 'how' of communicating God’s word clearly and meaningfully for the benefit of those to whom you are reading. We’ll see what it looks like, in other words, to be devoted to the public reading of Scripture in a practical and achievable way.
“Can you give me one book to read that explains what you think it means to be a Christian?” While this may be a dream scenario, it’s something we all should be and can be prepared for.
Last year my wife Fiona and I led a growth group together at church. It was a wonderful experience but also very challenging. My chemo cycles meant that I tended to be absent roughly one week in three, and sometimes I wouldn’t know how I’d be until that
Should every Christian aspire to be a bibliophile? Only if every Christian desires to be increasingly conformed to the image of Christ.
Christian leadership involves a lot of words: sermons preached, Bible studies led, meetings with individuals, families and teams. Words are the pastor’s tools of trade. It makes a lot of sense since words are of crucial importance to Christian people—after all we trust a God who speaks! It means that fundamental to Christian spiritually is
Pre-written studies have a place in growth group leading, but they work best when we use them to teach the Bible well rather than just to save time.
We are all tempted to discriminate between parts of God’s word. This could be by giving more attention to parts that we like, highlighting only what stands out to us as encouraging, or steering clear of Scripture we dislike.