We had the privilege of hosting Josh Hunt for our mid winter Sunday Morning Bible Study leadership conference. The emphasis on investing and building relationships is the key to reaching our society today. If you have not had the opportunity to have Josh Hunt in your church or attend one of his conferences, make plans to involve your leadership. His concepts will make a difference in your thinking about how simple it really is to reach out to people.
Josh Hunt believes in the power of the small group ministry in your church. And, his belief is contagious. In his new book, Make My Group Grow, Josh presents sound application to easy to understand research that will benefit every size and style of church. Your groups and leadership will benefit from this book.
Josh Hunt’s book should be read by all who are looking for new ways to reach people.
Discussion-based Lessons
Discussion-based lessons have groups talking and changing. We are changed more by what we say than what we hear. "Instead SPEAKING the truth (not just hearing the truth) we will grow." Ephesians 4.15 https://www.youtube.com/embed/lduldVUA8-4
Jesus is in the life-changing business
Jesus is in the life-changing business. From the very beginning all kinds of people were drawn to him and would come to him — satisfied people, messed-up people, lepers and injured people, forgotten people, despised people, prostitutes, tax collectors, admired people,...
Extrabiblical Sources Confirm Jesus’ Identity
About forty years after Jesus’ crucifixion, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, more commonly known as Pliny the Younger, was born. This future Roman senator and author is one of the few people from the first century who is well known because of his prolific writing....
The Power of the Mind in Discipleship
Two people suffer from cancer. One becomes bitter and despairing while the other is a beacon of honesty and hope to the people around them. Their cancer is the same. The difference is in their minds. Two people live with meager financial resources. One of them is...
How beauty points to the existence of God
In his late seventies, Antony Flew, one of the twentieth century’s most famous philosophers, stunned the philosophical world by announcing that he had begun to believe in God. If you are not into philosophy, you may not realize what a big deal this was. It would be...
The Spiritual Discipline of evangelism
Only the sheer rapture of being lost in the worship of God is as exhilarating and intoxicating as telling someone about Jesus Christ. Some of the most rewarding times of my life have been during mission trips when I have done nothing but talk about Christ on the...
What if I don’t feel joy
It is true that our hearts are often sluggish. We do not feel the depth or intensity of affections that are appropriate for God or His cause. It is true that at those times we must exert our wills and make decisions that we hope will rekindle our joy. Even though...
Who was Jesus?
The next reason I believe in the resurrection is that the identity of Jesus was confirmed. Who is Jesus? This is one of the most important questions anyone can ask, and the answer has the power to change a person’s life trajectory for eternity. For such an important...
The truth about idolatry
What does the word idolatry suggest to your mind? Savages groveling before a totem pole? Cruel-faced statues in Hindu temples? The dervish dance of the priests of Baal around Elijah’s altar? These things are certainly idolatrous, in a very obvious way; but we need to...
Loving God with Your Mind
Jesus said that the greatest commandment is “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind.” We have been discussing making an offering of the body, which is an act of worship “offered by mind and heart.” The next thing we are to...
The Greatest Moment In Your Life
If someone were to ask you what was the greatest moment of your life, what would you say? What is the first thing that comes to mind? I may not know you, but I know that there have been some extraordinary moments in your life: There was the moment you were born—when...
Doubling Groups, Part #7 — Reproduce Your Group
https://youtu.be/N3xqW5G9tiU
Emotions are not optional
Perhaps you can see why it is astonishing to me that so many people try to define true Christianity in terms of decisions and not affections. Not that decisions are unessential. The problem is that they require so little transformation. Mere decisions are no sure...
The Historicity of Jesus of Nazareth
Did Jesus of Nazareth really exist as a human being? Was He created by believers in an attempt to support their cause and then added to history books based on thousands of years of hearsay? Is there any record of His life in other writings, not just the Bible? How can...
If I had my life to live over…
If I had my life to live over again, I’d try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things I would take seriously. I would take more trips. I would be crazier. I would climb...
Doubling Groups 6 Encourage the Group Toward Ministry
https://youtu.be/tEmsvayUaqM
Godliness without the worship of God is unthinkable
One of the saddest experiences of my childhood happened on my tenth birthday. Invitations to the celebration were mailed days in advance to eight friends. It was going to be my best birthday ever. They all came to my house right after school. We played football and...
What were we made for?
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the “eternal life” that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. “This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (Jn 17:3)....
Doubling Groups 4k #5 — Giving Friday Nights to Jesus
https://youtu.be/axdVryfOKsU
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
Maximizing our joy in God is what we were created for. “But wait a minute,” someone says, “what about the glory of God? Didn’t God create us for His glory? But here you are saying that He created us to pursue our joy!” Which is it? Are we created for His glory or our...
Why I believe
As we begin our journey together to answer the question my professor asked me, there’s one thing that very good atheists and very good Christians have in common. The central issue for these diametrically opposed groups is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s where...
Sitting at the feed of our Rabbi
Biblical scholar Ray van der Laan notes that the first-century Jews had a blessing that beautifully expresses the commitment of a disciple to stay in the presence of the one he followed: “May you always be covered by the dust of your rabbi.” That is, “May you follow...
The second most important spiritual discipline
The largest radio receiver on earth is in New Mexico. Pilots call it “the mushroom patch.” Its real name is the Very Large Array. The “VLA” is a series of huge satellite disks on thirty-eight miles of railways. Together the dishes mimic a single telescope the size of...
Doubling Groups, Session #4 — Invite every member and every prospect to every fellowship every month
https://youtu.be/0iOLdnFOKXI
Sacred Pathways
Next to the giant textbooks in my backpack, Sacred Pathways felt small—the David amid many Goliaths. But this slim volume, required reading for my master’s degree in counseling, altered the way I saw myself as an introvert. Author Gary Thomas says, “God has given us...
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