Home groups are designed for small groups of people who can be authentic and transparent. That means they will have questions for new topics, comparisons with what they had learned in the past and for clarification of information. Home groups are designed with the intentional use of questions so that participants can practice thinking through the subject matter and building confidence Continue reading
As a home group leader you hope you will have a happy group of people, all growing fervently in their relationship with Jesus. And that is the case most of the time. However, there will be occasions when there is conflict with or between others. How do you keep the peace so things don’t blow up? Do you ignore it, laugh it off, or come down strong? Continue reading
Home groups are where people can get real. The worship service is the place where people have their best foot forward, they get to experience a moment of “heaven on earth” with connections and singing and they can be taught blessed truths from God’s Word. But the worship service is not a place where very many will want to be very open about challenges and growth opportunities in life. Continue reading
The goal of the home group leader is to glorify God. One of the best ways to do that is to help people spiritually mature to become spiritual parents. That means helping people lead others. Continue reading
There are four ingredients to the ministry philosophy of home groups, including Biblical Foundation, Relational Environment, Intentional Discipleship and Reproducible Process. If home group leaders focus on the Reproducible Process, they will actually assimilate the first three. The reason is that while programs and gimmicks can be developed to reproduce disciples, the process will break down very quickly without the first three. Why? Continue reading
Every ministry is built on a philosophy of ministry or way that something works. Home Groups at Grace are built on four ingredients: Biblical Foundation; Relational Environment, Intentional Discipleship and Reproductive Process. This article addresses the Biblical aspects of the Biblical Foundation. Continue reading
Home groups are designed to meet, be authentic, grow spiritually, intentionally disciple and then multiply. How do non-believers fit into home groups? Some might think that they do not. Yet, Jesus went to the homes where there were non-believing people, Continue reading
Home group is normally a relaxing place for affirming spiritual growth in followers of Christ. People are there because they want to be there and grow with other like-minded followers of Christ. However, each person is at a different stage of growth and every once in a while, God is going to allow the leader and the whole group to experience the angry outburst or seething anger bubbling over. It might come because of conviction over sin, a political statement made by one of the participants or someone was having a terrible, horrible, no good day! Continue reading
“The Renegade Pastor” by Nelson Searcy is written for pastors and church leaders who want to move beyond mediocrity to excellence. Continue reading
Does it matter how long a meeting lasts? Does it matter if some meetings are one hour and others are four hours? There are many considerations as we look at home groups, which address culture, participants and family schedules. Paul said it well, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” (1 Cor. 14:40) Put these principles into practice. Continue reading
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