A couple of days ago, I blogged about evaluating the state of your small group during the summer months. One important type of small group is the class for new church members or new believers. For obvious reasons, such a group doesn’t continue with the same people year after year. Your hope is to see…
Summer time is often a slow time in churches. Many small groups don’t meet through the summer because people are gone on vacation, or just busy with all those other things you can do while the kids are out of school. Sunday School classes are smaller for the same reason. This is a good time…
I wrote and publish two books on spiritual gifts, Identifying Your Gifts and Service, and Identifying Your Gifts and Service: Small Group Edition. Occasionally people wonder just how to use these two books. What is each one for. Briefly, Identifying Your Gifts and Service is a workbook designed to be used in conjunction with a…
Jody Neufeld maintains a devotional list via a blog, with e-mail or RSS subscriptions. Her husband, Henry Neufeld, also writes many devotionals for that list. Today’s devotional is A Foundation for Thinking. Go check it out. The devotionals are posted each weekday. Jody is author of
In writing for my wife’s devotional list and my Running Toward the Goal podcast (this podcast is no longer available and all links have been removed from this post 10/14/2018) this week, I have been focusing on the work of the Holy Spirit and the gifts. Since I’m also focusing on gifts here, I’d like to…
I’m focusing for a few days on the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts and how they function in a congregation. A couple of days ago I blogged about the relationship between the fruit and gifts of the Spirit. Today I want to look at models. When I was first asked to teach about spiritual gifts,…
Suppose you have a group of people who want to get together, remain informal, and yet do some Bible study and prayer. The basic idea is to get to know one another better and to support one another. You don’t want curriculum materials that require you to spend time studying during the week. You don’t…
