My favorite curriculum for small groups and smaller discipleship groups are the three books by James Bryan Smith entitled The Good & Beautiful God, The Good & Beautiful Life, and The Good & Beautiful Community. I have gone through the first book with five small groups and the entire series of all three books with […]
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4 Great Vineyard Small Group Worship DVD’s
By Jim Egli on June 14, 2014 in Small Group Leader Resources, Small Group Meetings, Small Group Worship, Small Groups
You don’t need a guitar player to have great small group worship, all you need is a DVD (or CD) player! I’m writing this post to alert you to a new Vineyard small group worship DVD, which joins several great ones that are already available. The new DVD, the first of its kind from the UK Vineyard […]
The Best Small Group Curriculum
By Jim Egli on February 22, 2013 in Discipleship, Pray, Small Group Leader Resources, Small Group Meetings, Small Group Pastor
Over the past 35 years I have used lots of great books and curriculum in leading small groups and discipleship groups—some of them written by me. Thinking of all of the good material I have used, my favorite small group curriculum now is The Good & Beautiful God, by James Bryan Smith. My friend small group […]
My Favorite Small Group Curriculum
By Jim Egli on September 22, 2012 in Discipleship, Pray, Small Group Leader Resources, Small Group Meetings, Small Groups
My favorite small group curriculum right now, the one I find myself recommending over and over to small group leaders, is Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Barton. I love it. It’s a six-session DVD curriculum on how to connect with God through simple spiritual disciplines. There are two reasons I love it so much. First, the […]
Simultaneously Expand Your Impact and Make Your Life Easier
By Jim Egli on June 23, 2012 in Discipleship, Empower, Life Balance, Small Group Leader Resources, Small Groups
If you are a ministry leader there is one thing that you can do that will both greatly increase your impact AND make your life easier. What is it? Raising up other leaders to your level. Raising up other leaders lightens your load and multiplies your impact. Although it tremendously eases our work load down […]
Why Your Small Group Ministry Is Struggling (and What You Can Do About It)
By Jim Egli on June 17, 2012 in Coaching, Small Group Leader Resources, Small Group Pastor, Small Groups
If your church’s small group ministry is struggling, I think I know why. Based on 8 years as a full-time small group consultant, 12 years as a small group pastor, and statistical research involving the small group ministries over 200 churches, I see three key mistakes that cripple small group system growth. Do any of […]
The Best Small Group Resource Ever
I’m excited to be blogging again. I plan to blog one to three times a month about small groups, discipleship, and doing multicampus church—all of it so that more people can experience Jesus’ power and grace in life-changing ways. Some of the entries will be about my favorite resources because I know small group leaders […]