Leading Beyond the Weekly Meeting
The weekly small group meeting is important to master, but effective small group leaders have a ministry vision that goes beyond mere meeting management.
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Creating an Outwardly Focused Small Group
Small groups that become inwardly focused, concerned mainly about their own members, are unlikely to ever reproduce. It takes intentional leadership to help a small group develop a concern for those people who are not part of the group yet.
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Create a Culture of Prayer from the Stage
If you want to get people excited about prayer (and actually doing it), here’s what you can do from the stage.
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Launching a Mentor-Based Youth Ministry
Don’t just create consumers in your youth group. Learn to empower students to become full circle followers of Jesus.
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Three Phases of a PursueGOD Small Group
PG small groups have a purpose and a process. You’re not just wandering aimlessly into the future; you’re moving with intention through three phases.
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Envisioning a New Kind of Church
Just learning about the pursueGOD discipleship resources? Discuss this topic with your leadership team or consultant.
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Pastor Essentials
What’s the pastor’s role – and the leaders – in empowering a discipleship culture?
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When Handoffs Aren’t Working
So your church finally has a pipeline of mentors waiting in the wings to take a handoff. But what if the handoff fails?
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Discipling Through Topics 4-6
Module #2 in The Pursuit covers the first arrow in a full-circle pursuit: how to start a relationship with God by trusting Jesus. Here’s how to disciple through it.
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How to Avoid Being a Weird Small Group
If a group is weird or awkward, people will not come back. Here is how not to be weird!
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Leveraging Ministry Teams for Disciple-making
The ministry training series at PGN are designed to help you create a discipleship culture from the inside out.
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How to Make Your Group Welcoming to Guests
It can be intimidating to attend a small group for the first time. Will your group make guests feel welcome or weird?
Read More3 Keys to a Discipleship Culture
If you want to create a church of disciples who make disciples, it’ll take more than wishful thinking. You’ll need prayer, expectation, and strategy.
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Making the Handoff as a Pastor
If you want to create a discipleship culture in your church, you will have to learn how to connect your mentors with the people who need help.
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How to Recruit for Ministry Teams
Recruiting volunteers is hard. Pastor John Belles gives practical advice for those who want to do it better.
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Using Good FORM to Make Disciples
To engage someone in a mentoring relationship, try using this simple acronym to break the ice.
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What Is the Gateway for Youth at Your Church?
Healthy student ministries have on ramps for newcomers to youth group. Here are the four main options.
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Should a Parachurch Ministry Make Disciples?
Often, parachurch ministries don’t want to “step on the toes” of local churches when it comes to making disciples. But is this mindset missing something?
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How to Create a Warm Church That Makes Disciples
If you want to make disciples who make disciples at your church, you’d better create a warm atmosphere where people want to connect.
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The Flywheel for a Discipleship Culture
It’s easy to get busy doing ministry tasks that take you away from the real win that Jesus had in mind: making disciple-makers.
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Tracking Disciple-making with Planning Center
Customize your partner page at pursueGOD.org and start measuring what matters in your ministry.
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Setting Up Your Church Org Chart
The church org chart for pastors using pursueGOD.org is nothing more than the pastor’s professional mentoring tree. Here’s what it might look like.
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Small Group Rally (Series)
Rallying the troops for another great season of small groups? Use the training topics below for workshops during the rally and for follow-up training after the rally.
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Are You Qualified to Lead a Student Group?
What does it mean to be qualified to lead a student group? Will any of us ever really be “qualified”? Talk about it here.
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