Posts Tagged ‘small group tips

I took my wife on a date last night.  We went to 3rd and Lindsley, a bar & grill in downtown Nashville, to eat and listen to music.  We both enjoy music from the singer-songwriter genre, and though neither of us were too familiar with the lineup of musicians, we enjoyed the night. (as a [...]

31 Jul, 2009

Small group leaders, listen up!

Posted by: Ben Reed In: Leadership| Small Groups

The way that you apply any given Scripture is flavored by your life experiences.  It’s inevitable.  Hopefully you don’t rely on your life experiences as your interpretive grid, but to work through applications based on where you find yourself in life is appropriate (sorry…I’ll stop the hermeneutics lesson now).
I find myself as a small groups [...]




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