*This is adapted from a series of emails to Life Group (small group) leaders as we read Cloud and Townsend’s Making Small Groups Work together. I cannot think of a subject that makes me much more uncomfortable than confrontation. I do not…
*This is adapted from a series of emails to Life Group (small group) leaders as we read Cloud and Townsend’s Making Small Groups Work together. This is one of the things I’ve been hinting at—that in our groups there is a unique…
These reflections are adapted from emails I send to our Life Group leaders as part of ongoing small group leader training at our church. They are direct reflections on Cloud and Townsend’s Making Small Groups Work, a book we are reading through…
There’s that great story in Luke 7 where the woman known as a sinner comes to Jesus. The Pharisees condemn her because she’s a “woman of the city.” And after she weeps at his feet and anoints them, Jesus says:…
*These reflections are adapted from emails I send to our Life Group leaders as part of ongoing small group leader training at our church. They are direct reflections on Cloud and Townsend’s Making Small Groups Work, a book we are reading through…
Small groups don’t run on good vibes alone. Whether you’re leading a group or simply participating in one, part of what makes a group healthy is shared responsibility for how we use our time and care for one another. Life…
How are your Life Groups doing? More specifically: how are your groups doing at connecting with one another on a heart level? Cloud and Townsend ask whether our groups are connecting “on a heart-based level” (71), and I think that’s a helpful…
Cloud and Townsend open this chapter by saying, “An important aspect of any growth-producing group is that it provides a context for members to re-experience whatever they missed in life the first time around” (67). That line really stuck with me, because…