Leading Small Groups That Thrive

Five Shifts to Take Your Group to the Next Level

By: Ryan T. Hartwig, Courtney W. Davis, Jason A. Sniff, Jared Musgrove - introduction

Narrated by: John Behrens, LaQuita James

Nearly every church is trying to help their congregants build relationships with others, grow as disciples, and/or engage in meaningful service through small groups. Many have argued that these small groups are the preferred vehicle for relationship building, disciple making, and membership assimilation in the local church, especially in large, multisite churches.

Leading Small Groups That Thrive shows small group leaders, step by step, how to plan for, launch, build, sustain, and multiply highly effective, transformational, healthy small group experiences where people grow spiritually together. Based on a large-scale research study of small group pastors, leaders, and members, Leading Small Groups That Thrive gives church leaders both what they want--practical, straightforward, actual small group member voices and experiences, and compelling guidance on how to build transformational groups complemented with real-life examples and data of successful small groups--and what they need--substantial, challenging insights and a data-driven model grounded in the latest research on church small groups.

Accompanying assessments, graphs, discussion questions, and appendixes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

absolutely needs a different reader

I wish all the best to the young sounding woman who read the book, but she read at the equivalent of a high school sophomore. The pacing is poor and the meaning of the sentences is often interrupted by the way she takes pauses. It is as if she has not read the book before she made the recording. Ultimately it was unlistenable to me and I gave up.