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Groups That Work:
The Missing Ingredient

Groups That Work: The Missing Ingredient

Increased activity by laymen in the church has led to a skyrocketing increase in the number --- and responsibilities --- of group and committee actions.

To help these "groups" achieve their goals, stories and articles by 24 outstanding leaders have been assembled in Groups That Work. Through example and theory these articles tell how to set a group going --- and keep it going. More important, this dynamic, down-to-earth book shows how ministers and laymen working together can revitalize existing ministries, and help beginners find new ones.

As a practical "how-to" book, Groups That Work will be popular with concerned laymen, ministers and church leaders.

Read the Introduction written by D. Elton Trueblood.

I. GROUPS THAT --- WHAT THEY CAN BE

In which you will discover basic principles of small groups, personal disciplines for members, one way to begin, the essential ingredient, fundamentals for a "program," how to listen, what people fear, the value of crisis, how to begin praying aloud, the use of silence, and how the Church can come alive.
Finding a Handle by Irving Harris Groups per se are not an answer nor an end in themselves. They must become an organic part of the Body of Christ
Behind Our Masks by Keith Miller For us, it is no longer a "religion" of patterns of behavior and study, but real life in which we are free to be honest about ourselves and to accept and love each other and God.
Honesty Is the Only Policy by Bruce Larson God is not shocked by our sins. But, when we are hypocrites, we cut ourselves off from the life God wants to give us, and pick our own kind of death ---a sudden coronary or some slow death.
A "Christian Program" by S. M. Shoemaker Do you "get the program"? Through A.A, persons seem to "get with it" in a few sessions, we need this to be the case in church life as well!
Barriers to Fellowship by Walden Howard  
Renewal Through Crisis by W. Randolph Thornton  
Breaking the Sound Barrier by Rosalind Rinker  
Letting God Speak by Lionel A. Whiston  
The Church Alive by Howard Keeley  
Inward Journey by N. Gordon Cosby  
How to Lead a Group by the Editors of "Faith at Work"  

II. GROUPS THAT WORK --- WHAT THEY CAN DO

In which you will discover some possibilities of outreach, how new life leads to mission, how society is renewed, honesty in daily witness, how teenagers respond, how to talk about your troubles, how a home can be used, how groups reproduce, how old enmities can fade, and how any church can share in the new evangelism.
New Life --- New Mission by Robert A. Raines  
Get Changed, Get Together, Get Along by Donald T. James  
A Ministry at the Crossroads by Ralston C. Young (Red Cap 42)  
From Gangs to Groups by Bill Milliken  

No Place Like Home

 by Bill Lamb  
First There Were Eight by John Dutton  
No Lonely Pilgrimage by Howard B. Haines  
Between Meetings, the Acid Test by Bruce Larson  
How to Talk About Your Troubles by O. Hobart Mowrer  
Brothers in Dialogue by Hugh Southworth and Garth Stanton  
How to Begin Again by Walden Howard  
When Teenagers Changed a Church by Harold R. Martin  
God Wants Us Together by Annette Sackrison  
One Church Finds Renewal by David C. Searfoss  
The New Evangelism by Roger Fredrikson  

 

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