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Making Small Groups Work

What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know
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Making Small Groups Work by John Townsend and Henry Cloud offers essential guidance for leading small groups that foster spiritual, emotional, and relational growth. Drawing on principles from their best-selling books How People Grow and Boundaries, the authors highlight that growth thrives through grace, truth, and time. This book addresses diverse group needs, from marriage enrichment to grief recovery, helping leaders and members embrace imperfections without shame while modelling God's love and support. It also covers leadership roles and practical solutions for common group challenges like boredom, passivity, and over-neediness.
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This book is ideal for small-group leaders, church organisers, and anyone involved in facilitating personal growth within communal settings, especially those interested in spiritual development and emotional health.

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Provides small-group leaders with guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. This book shows how God's plan for growth is made up of three key elements: grace plus truth plus time. It equips leaders to understand the ins and outs of how to promote growth.

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Lead small groups through astounding growth with principles from the best-selling books How People Grow and Boundaries. No matter what need brings a group of people together—from marriage enrichment to divorce recovery, from grief recovery to spiritual formation—members are part of a small group because they want to grow.

This book by psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend provides small-group leaders with valuable guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. With insights from their best-selling book How People Grow, Cloud and Townsend show how God's plan for growth is made up of three key elements: grace plus truth plus time. When groups embrace those elements, they find God's grace and forgiveness and learn how to handle their imperfections without shame as they model God's love and support to one another.

In addition to describing what makes small groups work, Making Small Groups Work explains the roles and responsibilities of both leaders and group members. Employing tenets from the book How People Grow, this book equips leaders to understand the ins and outs of how to promote growth. Using principles from their best-selling book Boundaries, they show how to identify and find solutions for common problems such as boredom, noncompliance, passivity, aggression, narcissism, spiritualization, over-neediness, over-giving, and nonstop talking.

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ISBN: 9780310250289

Publisher: Zondervan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 August 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: Zondervan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 253g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Dr. Henry Cloud is a popular speaker, and cohost, with Dr. John Townsend, of the nationally broadcast New Life Live! Radio program, and cofounder of Cloud-Townsend Clinic and Cloud-Townsend Resources. His bestselling books include the Gold Medallion Award-winning Boundaries books and Making Small Groups Work. Dr. Cloud and his wife and two daughters live in Southern California. Dr. Henry Cloud es un hablante popular, y co-presentador, con Dr. John Townsend, de la emisora nacional. Nueva vida Vive! Programa de radio, y co- fundador de Cloud- Townsend Clinic y Cloud- Townsend Recursos. Su libros mejor bendidos incluyen el premio medallon de oro son, Limites y haciendo pequenos grupos que trabajen. Dr. Clud y su esposa viven en el Sur de California. Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend are popular speakers, and co-hosts of the nationally broadcast New Life Live! Radio program, and co-founders of Cloud-Townsend Clinic and Cloud-Townsend Resources. Their best-selling books include the Gold Medallion Award-winning Boundaries. El Dr. John Townsend (www.CloudTownsend.com) es reconocido orador, sicologo y conductor del popular programa radial New Life, ademas es cofundador de Cloud-Townsend Resources. El mantiene sus practicas privadas en Newport Beach, California y es coautor de muchos exitos de libreria.Entre ellos: Limites en el Matrimonio, Limites con los Ninos, El Factor Mamay Limites, este ultimo galardonado con el Premio Medallon de Oro.de Oro.

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