Making Small Groups Work

What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know

By: Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Narrated by: Henry/John Cloud/Townsend, Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Lead small groups through astounding growth with principles from the best-selling books How People Grow and BoundariesNo 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, Leading Small Groups That Help People Grow 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, and 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.

Listening with purpose is key

Excellent if you are interested in helping yourself and others grow. Small groups allow people to genuine, venerable, and to be the iron that sharpens iron.

Great resource

The information received was excellent for anyone who leads a small group. This a resource I will listen to again and again. Thanks

tough read/listen

struggled to finish this book...lots of content and not sure if all of it is necessary.

Small Group Leaders Need to Read this

This is the most practical book on how to run small groups. Thanks to this book my church runs a highly successful mens small groups. To where the men stay really long to discuss what’s on their mind and hearts weekly. So thankful to be able to use this resource. It’s changed lives

A must read for those leading ministry groups

I love that the authors address common issues in groups and emphasize the importance of protecting the group