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Do people expectantly return to your group meetings every week? Do you have fun and experience joy during your meetings? Is everyone participating in discussion and ministry? You can lead a great small-group meeting, one that is life-changing and dynamic. Most people don't realize that they can create a God-filled atmosphere because they don't know how. Now the secret is out. By implementing these time-tested ideas, your group meetings will become the hot item of your members' week. They will go home wanting more and return each week bringing new people with them.

Empowered to Lead equips small group leaders to more effectively facilitate their groups. Each of the 18 chapters covers a distinct, essential aspect of small group leadership. Each lesson includes a short video, discussion questions, internet resources, and a downloadable PowerPoint within the lesson. This book is packed with valuable material, designed to help you make more and better disciples of Jesus Christ.

En este libro, he señalado ocho principios y prioridades que ayudarán al creyente a vivir una vida cristiana victoriosa.

Everyone has at least one spiritual gift, according the Bible. But many don’t know what that gift is or how to use it. This book provides clear steps and guidelines to find and activate spiritual gifts. The eight lessons offer biblical insight on what the gifts are and practical suggestions on how to use them. This book will especially help those leading a small group to know how to discern the different gifts among group members - and then to help each person activate that gift.

If we are going to have a victorious church tomorrow, we must focus on the youth today. In this book, Comiskey lays out the biblical base for youth ministry, highlights the felt needs of today’s youth, and then shows why small groups are the most effective way to make youth disciples today. Comiskey explains the difference between inter-generational cells and student-led groups, the equipping process for youth leaders, how to coach leaders, and how to get started in youth cell ministry. Comiskey also describes common errors in youth ministry and how to avoid them.

We've entitled this audiobook You Can Coach because we believe that coaching is more about passing on what you've lived and holding others accountable in the process. Coaching doesn't require a higher degree, special talent, unique personality, or a particular spiritual gift. We believe, in fact, that God wants coaching to become a movement. We long to see the day in which every pastor has a coach and in turn is coaching someone else. In this audiobook, you'll hear three coaches who have successfully coached pastors for many years.

Small group resources tend to overlook the spiritual side of small group leadership. And yet most would agree that spiritual preparation is the most important aspect of leading a small group. Only God’s supernatural power can draw people to the truth and liberate them to be all that God wants them to be. The key distinction of this audiobook is the spiritual perspective it gives to small group ministry. In a Holy Spirit-charged atmosphere, cell leaders are best raised up and members are encouraged to minister in their giftedness.

Most of the modern day cell church movement is biblical, dynamic, and positive. Sadly, errors and false assumptions have also crept in to confuse and lead astray an otherwise healthy movement. Joel Comiskey, in this ground-breaking book, exposes the myths of the cell church movement and then offers positive principles and insights to guide churches and leaders on the right path. Each chapter begins with a unique insight from a worldwide cell church leader who will share decades of wisdom in working with cell groups.

Jesús discipuló a sus seguidores por medio de relaciones interpersonales - y espera que nosotros hagamos lo mismo. A lo largo de las Escrituras encontramos abundantes exhortaciones a servirnos unos a otros. Este audiolibro le mostrará cómo hacerlo. La vida de aislamiento de la cultura occidental de hoy crea un deseo por vivir en comunidad y el mundo entero anhela ver discípulos relacionales en acción.

Facilitate highlights the key dynamics of small groups that will give a leader confidence to minister to those in the group. Facilitate teaches a leader how to listen well, ask questions, train others, involve people, and prepare for the meeting. This audiobook shows a potential leader how to develop new leaders to continue the discipleship process. It is excellent to use both in a Sunday school class and one on one. This audiobook has eight lessons, full of practical questions and applications.

In this groundbreaking audiobook, Joel Comiskey and Jim Egli describe eight surprises about thriving small groups, from their research of 4,800 small-group participants on four continents. The authors expose common small group assumptions and offer practical advice to group members and leaders to help their groups thrive. The audiobook covers topics such as small group participation, the influence of food, worship, and how thriving small groups effectively reach others for Jesus Christ.

Grow! explains how to have a daily quiet time in order to know Christ intimately and grow to maturity. This audiobook offers plenty of practical help for turning the “chore” of devotions into a life-changing, joy-producing habit. Grow! outlines clearly how to seek God in the quiet time and explains the amazing benefits of experiencing God on a daily basis. With this helpful and enthusiastic audiobook, a person can have a quiet time that is much more than opening a Bible and saying prayers.

Christ's death on the cross offers victory over bitterness, addictions, occult bondage, and debilitating strongholds. Encounter: Receive Christ's Freedom will show you how to apply Christ's victory to your own life. This book is an excellent resource for someone who is bound by sinful habits or who simply needs to live an abundant life. It explains clearly how to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and then to walk in the Spirit's power.

The Gospel is the best news on the face of this earth. Many believers, however, don't have a clear understanding of what that good news is nor how to share it. Share offers practical insights to help a believer boldly proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to friends, neighbors, and loved ones. This audiobook is not only designed to equip a believer individually to share his or her faith, but it also instructs a small group how to witness to those outside the Christian faith.

Live: Experience Christ's Life is an excellent resource for someone who wants to know God and experience his life. This audiobook clearly explains how to pray, read the Bible, receive spiritual freedom, and administrate God's resources. It's a great audiobook to use individually, in a small group, or in a classroom teaching setting.

With full calendars and long lists of things to do, people often put on hold life's most important goal - building an intimate relationship with God. Often, believers wish to pursue the goal but are not sure how to do it. They feel frustrated or guilty when their attempts at personal devotions seem empty and unfruitful. With warm, encouraging writing, Joel Comiskey guides listeners on how to set a daily appointment with the King and make it an exciting time they will look forward to.

Aunque el evangelio es la mejor noticia sobre la faz de la tierra, muchos creyentes no saben cómo compartir con claridad las buenas nuevas. Comparte: Haz que Cristo sea una Realidad para Otros, ofrece guías prácticas que ayudarán al creyente a establecer contactos con los no-creyentes y planificar cómo compartir el evangelio con ellos.

Muchos creen que la forma en que tratan a sus cuerpos no tiene relación con su caminar con Dios. No hacen ejercicio regularmente ni comen alimentos saludables. Tampoco es una prioridad. La espiritualidad, sí lo es; la salud física, no. Sutilmente han colocado una pared entre las dos. En Gálatas 5:23, una manifestación del fruto del Espíritu Santo es el dominio propio (Gálatas 5:23). Los cristianos deben exhibir dominio propio en todas las áreas de la vida, incluida la alimentación y la actividad física.

Con los años, he notado una resistencia a tomarse un día libre. La respuesta es así: “Oh, ¿un día libre? Ciertamente no. Estoy demasiado ocupado haciendo la obra de Dios. ¿Vacaciones? De ninguna manera, tengo mucho que hacer por el Señor”. Cuando las personas dicen cosas como esta, asumen que otros estarán impresionados por su arduo trabajo y les darán palmaditas en la espalda por no ser perezosos u holgazanes. Y ciertamente, las personas que dicen tales cosas no entran en la categoría de perezosos.

Comiskey establece la base bíblica para el ministerio de niños, y luego anima a los pastores y líderes a formular su propia visión y filosofía para el ministerio de niños basado en el texto bíblico. Comiskey destaca cómo discipular a niños, tanto en el grupo grande como en el pequeño. Rápidamente pasa a ejemplos prácticos de grupos celulares intergeneracionales, y a la efectividad con la que las iglesias celulares han implementado este tipo de grupo.