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Leading a Group

Walk this road with a few others. Every lesson has a one-page leader’s guide you can print or save as a PDF.

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Learning Map › Leading a Group

These guides are for leaders to prepare with; if you are a group member, you are welcome to read them too—next time it may be your turn to lead. Each meeting takes about an hour. Seeker groups follow the Alpha pattern: eat something and catch up first. New believer, rooting and sending groups end by praying for each other in pairs.

Seeking Path · 7 sessions

  1. Does Life Have Meaning?
  2. Is There Really a God?
  3. Can the Bible Be Trusted?
  4. Who Is Jesus?
  5. What Is Wrong with Us?
  6. Why the Cross?
  7. How Do I Begin to Believe?

Extra lessons (use any time)

New Believer’s Path · 7 sessions

  1. Being with God · Remaining in the Lord
  2. Prayer · In Everything, by Prayer
  3. Bible Reading · Letting the Word of Christ Dwell in You
  4. Fellowship and the Lord’s Day · Not Forsaking Our Assembling
  5. Giving and Serving · Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself
  6. Testimony · Always Ready to Give an Answer
  7. Rule of Life · A Rhythm for the Long Road

Rooting Path · Christian Living · 7 sessions

  1. Marriage · The Person Closest to You optional
  2. Family · Parents, Children and Family optional
  3. Work · As for the Lord
  4. Money · Where Your Treasure Is
  5. Friends and Neighbors · Iron Sharpens Iron
  6. Hardship · In Hardship
  7. Death and Hope · Death and Hope

Rooting Path · How to Read the Bible · 7 sessions

  1. One Book, One Story
  2. Slow Down and See
  3. Every Verse Has a Home
  4. Reading Stories and Law
  5. Reading Poetry and Wisdom
  6. Reading the Gospels, Letters and Prophets
  7. From Then to Today

Rooting Path · Old Testament Survey · 7 sessions

  1. In the Beginning: A Good World, a Wayward People
  2. One Family Receives the Promise
  3. The Exodus: Rescued to Be God’s People
  4. Into Canaan, Asking for a King
  5. Poetry and Wisdom: Fearing God in Daily Life
  6. A Divided Kingdom, the Prophets’ Call, and Exile
  7. Return and Waiting

Rooting Path · New Testament Survey · 7 sessions

  1. The Four Gospels: One Jesus, Four Angles
  2. Toward Jerusalem: The Cross
  3. He Is Risen
  4. Acts: From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth
  5. Paul’s Letters: Written to the Churches
  6. The General Letters: Standing Firm in Suffering
  7. Revelation: A Book of Hope

Sending Path · Introduction to Serving · 7 sessions

  1. What Is the Church? · The Body of Christ
  2. Shepherds and the Flock · Shepherds and the Flock
  3. Encouraging One Another · Encouraging One Another
  4. Facing Conflict · Facing Conflict
  5. Leading a Small Group · Leading a Small Group
  6. Walking with One Person · Walking with One Person
  7. Raising Up the Next Person · Raising Up the Next Person

Sending Path · Business as Mission · 7 sessions

  1. Work Was Part of the First Calling
  2. Business as Mission in History
  3. What Business as Mission Is, and Is Not
  4. Four Accounts
  5. Keeping Integrity in Someone Else’s Culture
  6. Making Money, Losing Money, and Success
  7. Who Sends You, and Who Cares for You

General principles for leaders

  • The leader is not a teacher but someone who walks alongside everyone.
  • Give everyone a chance to speak; with someone who talks a lot, you can gently say, ‘Let’s also hear from friends who haven’t spoken yet.’
  • Don’t rush to give answers. If someone is silent, wait a few more seconds.
  • For a question you can’t answer, you can say, ‘I don’t know either; let’s look it up together,’ and note it down for next time.
  • What is said in the group stays in the group.
  • At the opening, the leader can give their own answer first, showing that it can be simple and honest.