Build Groups · Chapter one · About 20 minutes

1. What a Healthy Group Is and Is Not

Honor what is good about a warm group while bringing fellowship, study, and prayer into balance and naming a ministry focus.

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What you will practice

  • Name what a healthy group is and is not, using the workbook's picture of fellowship, study, and prayer.
  • Honor what is genuinely good about the group's fellowship without treating it as the finish line.
  • Explain why the leader's balance of fellowship, study, and prayer shapes what members practice on their own.
  • Name a ministry focus for the group and invite a longtime member into it.

Source: Build Groups, Group Leader Training, “Healthy Groups.” Practice conversation with the fictional character Rhonda. Talk with Joe.