Finding the Flow: A Guide for Leading Small Groups and Gatherings

by Tara Miller, Jenn Peppers, Joseph R. Myers (Foreword)

Do small groups really work?If you've led or even been part of a small group, the experience can be frustrating. How do you juggle priorities and personalities? How can you tell what individuals want or need from the group? And how do you even get people to clear an hour in their schedule to show up? What's meant to bring life can become dry, stale and ineffective.Tara Miller and Jenn Peppers, experienced small-group facilitators and trainers, have observed and had the same questions and frustrations. But they've also experienced the power small groups have to help people heal, to allow individuals to wrestle with questions, to create a space where people know and are known by others, and to open people up to encounter God more deeply. So in these pages, Miller and Peppers passionately offer help and hope for your small group, so that you can encounter God in new and deeper ways together.Their honest, nonprogrammatic guideprovides exercises and reflection questions throughout and at the end of each chapter to help you process the material and then actually work it into your groupincludes many real-life stories from the authors' wide-ranging experience with small groupspoints out common obstacles that keep leaders from being able to follow the Spirit effectively--and ways you can avoid or overcome themequips you with skills that will draw people toward Christ in authentic waysAs you read and reflect on the authors' practical and life-giving ideas, you'll learn to listen to God and others, guide groups through conflict, know yourself better, and create space for the Spirit to work during your group time. Developing these skills will prepare you to lead any small group, no matter what kind or setting.Finding the Flow overflows with fresh water so that you can be refreshed, encouraged and equipped to help others in small groups drink deeply of the riches of life in Christ as you encounter him together.

Genres: Leadership

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 17, 2008

Reviews

[Marylou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good guide

This is one of the better small group guides that I have read. I like the emphasis on facilitating and on asking good questions.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book on small group leading that I've ever read. And I've read a lot about small group leading.

[Robert Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent small groups resource from practitioners