1. Recruiting, Training and Sustaining Small Group Leaders
For Every Size Church

2. Church of the Resurrection Purpose Statement:
“To Build a Christian Community Where Non-Religious and Nominally Religious People are Becoming Deeply Committed Christians.”

3. Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
“It is easy to think that the Church has a lot of different missions– education, building, missions, holding services…the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men (people) into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.”

4. Who Owns Your Purpose?
Do you rent? Or do you own?

5. Who Fulfills Your Purpose?
Have Your Leaders Bought Into Being Owners?

6. Steps in the Development of Small Group Leaders:
Identify
Recruit
Empower
Deploy
Sustain

7. IDENTIFY
Best Leaders Lead! Disciple-makers instead of committee leaders
Your Most Engaging Church Attenders (not necessarily your most knowledgeable ones)
Introductory Classes (such as a Bible 101, Alpha Course, etc)
Personality Types (Enneagram [1], Myers/Briggs[ENFJ, ESFJ]), Spiritual Gifts (Teacher, Pastor/Teacher, Helper), Passionate

8. IDENTIFY Train existing leaders to spot potential in others
Gage interest when people join the church.
Brainstorm as a Staff and Leadership Team
Raise Up by Mentoring

9. When You Think of Moses, what image do you see?

10. When You Think of Moses, what image do you see?

11. Before He Was Ever That…He was this!

12. You Are Not Calling People to Under Go Torture… You are Inviting Them to Make a Difference in the World

13. Recruit Planting Seeds…
Have you ever considered…
I would like for you to consider…
Here are the concrete reasons I believe you can do this
Talk about the Fulfilling the Purpose of the Church
Make the Pitch with No Arm Twisting
Listen to Their Barriers and Seek to Eliminate/Reduce Them
Give Them an Out- “Try it for a year…”

14. Casting a Vision
Kyle Holt- Other than my wife and kids, my small group means more to me than anything else…brainstorm about advantages to being in a small group

15. Empower The Basics… Trial Leadership (Short-term offering)
How to Facilitate a Small Group
The Purposes of a Small Group (Knowing, Loving, Serving)
Intentionality
Trial Leadership (Short-term offering)
Investing in them- Leading the Leaders
Starter Kits and Curriculum
Make Training and Yourself Easily Accessible

16. 10 Commandments of Small Group Leadership
1. I am the Lord Your God, Small Groups Develop My Disciples.
Your Group Shall Have No Other gods Before Me.
Do Not Misuse God’s Name By Making Your
Thoughts His Thoughts.
Remember Thy Small Group Day and Keep It Holy.
Honor Your Fellow Small Group Members and You Shall Prosper.
You Shall Not Kill Your Fellow Members with Biting Words.
You Shall Not Commit Adultery.
You Shall Not Steal Your Small Group Members Time
with Frivilous Talk.
You Shall Not Bear False Ideas for the Sake of Arguing.
You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor’s Great Stories of Faith, but Go
Out and Make Your Own.

17. Deploy Fellowship Event Large or Small Group Teaching Event
Group Members Commit to One Study Together
Make Introductions Before First Session
Make Certain Leaders Have the Right Tools to Succeed
Handouts
Lesson Plan
Vision

18. Leaders Cannot Enter the Promised Land…
Kyle Holt- Other than my wife and kids, my small group means more to me than anything else…brainstorm about advantages to being in a small group

19. Sustain Regular Check-in’s Assessibility of Leader/Tools
Training Events or Brainstorming with Other Leaders
Encouragement- Share Good Things You’ve Heard
Encouragement from the Group Showing Appreciation
Teaching Event
Lead the Leaders

20. Starting is Easy…Sustaining the Course Can Be Hard
Golden Calves are Easy to Make