Building Biblical Community - Leader Kit

Building Biblical Community - Leader Kit is a 4 session group experience designed to help members understand what it means to belong in a small group, know how to live in community and do life together, discover mission, and learn the importance of "story" in group life.Target Audience:Churches starting a small-group ministryChurches adding new groupsChurches wanting a church-wide campaign for building communityStruggling groupsSession Topics:Celebrating Community: a biblical community looks for reasons to celebrate; Jesus modeled this even in the hours before being arrested in GethsemaneLearning Community: God created us to be learners; community is perhaps the best context for individual learning as members engage truth, seek to understand, and put learning into practiceLoving Community: draws from 1 Corinthians 13 to develop the notion that love is central to biblical community: a community that loves God completely, loves others compassionately, loves self correctly, and loves the world courageouslyService Community: examines the reasons service seems so "heavy" by identifying the barriers to service within the church and broader communityFeatures:1 interactive DVD with authors teaching and leading group discussions and introducing and modeling exercisesMember Book with leader notes5 leader tip segments from Steve Gladen and Bill Donahue directed to the leaderWarm-up activitiesDiscussion questionsCase studies.