7 Resources for Your Small Group Ministry
Each of the seven books that I’ve written include a built-in discussion guide for small group use. Many churches and para-church organizations are using these books in their small group ministry.
Relating Truth to Life
Each book, gift-book, or booklet focuses on relating truth to life. Unlike some small group material that is either shallow (without much biblical content) or filled with biblical content but lacking in life application, these RPM Ministries materials seek to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth.
Enjoy these “snap-shots” of how you can use these books in your small group ministry.
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting 
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses is ideal for what I call “mending small groups”—groups that are focused on addressing healing and recovery. God’s Healing for Life’s Losses focuses on helping group members interact about their journey from grief to growth through grace. Written in a gift book format, each brief chapter concludes with a page of personal reflection questions called Your Journal. Each chapter also concludes with a page of small group interaction questions called Your Journey. To learn more about God’s Healing for Life’s Losses click here.
Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure is also well suited for mending small groups. A 42-page booklet, each brief section in Anxiety concludes with Applying the Gospel to Daily Life. To learn more about Anxiety: Anatomy and Cure click here.
Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith 
Sacred Friendships is perfect for a women’s small group study. Co-written with Susan Ellis, we journey with readers through the lives and ministries of 52 women heroes of the faith. Women reading Sacred Friendships will not only be affirmed, but also equipped for one-another ministry. Each chapter concludes with an interactive/applicational section: Learning Together from Our Great Cloud of Witnesses. To learn more about Sacred Friendships click here.
Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction 
Beyond the Suffering is well suited for any small group that wants to: a.) be better equipped for multi-cultural ministry, b.) learn how to provide one-another soul care and spiritual direction, and c.) learn more about and learn from the great cloud of African American witnesses. Each chapter concludes with an interactive/applicational group discussion guide: Learning Together From Our Great Cloud of Witnesses. To learn more about Beyond the Suffering click here.
Spiritual Friends: A Methodology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction 
Spiritual Friends is ideal for what I call “ministry small groups”—small groups focused on equipping members to develop specific ministry competence in the context of Christian community. Spiritual Friends is designed as a relationally practical small group training manual to equip group members to experience biblical counseling. I’m convinced that we best learn how to be biblical counselors by giving and receiving biblical counseling in community. Spiritual Friends is filled with thousands of illustrative interactions and hundreds of skill-building exercises to equip group members to develop twenty-two biblical counseling relational skills. To learn more about Spiritual Friends click here.
Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction 
Soul Physicians, like Spiritual Friends, is ideally suited for ministry small groups. It provides a biblical theology of biblical counseling by addressing life’s seven ultimate questions. Every chapter is filled with real life vignettes and ministry illustrations. And every chapter ends with two built-in discussion sections: Caring for Your Soul: Personal Applications and Caring for Others: Ministry Implications. To learn more about Soul Physicians click here.
Equipping Counselors for Your Church: The 4E Ministry Training Strategy 
Equipping Counselors for Your Church, like Spiritual Friends and Soul Physicians, is written for ministry small groups. As Steve Viars says, “It provides a model for equipping biblical counselors that flows right out of the pages of Scripture.” If your church or para-church ministry team wants to learn how to launch and lead any one-another ministry, then Equipping Counselors is for you. Every chapter ends with: Growing Together: Questions for Reflection, Discussion, and Application. The built-in Appendix documents provide over 100 pages of best practice resources for your ministry team to use as a template in your church. To learn more about Equipping Counselors for Your Church click here.
Free Resources
When you click the links associated with each book, you’ll also be able to download sample chapters of every book and other free resources related to the books.
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