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Group Life Podcast
by Willow Creek Community Church
Be encouraged, equipped and empowered to help people grow as fully devoted followers of Jesus.
Episodes
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The Second "C" - Commit
Join hosts AnnaMaria Mattey and Dave Liefeld as they continue unpacking the second "C" - commit. Ary Grubner from Willow's Young Adults ministry joins them to discuss his own experience leading.
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The First "C" - Connect
Join hosts AnnaMaria Mattey and Dave Liefeld as they go deeper on the first "C" - connect. Featuring Lead Pastor of Parkcrest Christian Church and former Willow Creek staff member Jared Wilkins.
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The 4 Cs - An Introduction
Join hosts AnnaMaria Mattey and Dave Liefeld as they unpack the 4 Cs that make up a great small group - Connect, Commit, Confess, and Challenge.
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Plights and Pitfalls of Small Group Leadership
Explore strategies and tools to grow as a leader and to help your people to flourish.
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Learning to Believe the Best
At the very heart of the gospel, and our rescue is God's grace and mercy. Yet we can find it so hard to demonstrate in our own lives. Why would that person do such a thing? How can I love them when they say things like this? What could possibly make them think that way? However, perhaps the…
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Lessons For & From Marriage
How do we support people wherever they are on the spectrum of marital status? Everyone has a marital status – not everyone likes it. It affects a group member's life in different ways, in different seasons. It can contribute to growing and thriving as fully devoted followers of Christ. For others…
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Connecting and Reconnecting People to Groups
As a group leader you have a strategy for creating an environment for connection. That is Group Leadership 101. However, is it inevitable that every group come with its own revolving door? Disengaged people looking to leave the group. Unconnected people looking to become a part of the group. As…
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Shifting Focus from Teaching to Learning
Isn't this simple a matter of semantics? Surely, great teaching results in great learning! Perhaps. A group leader who is a charismatic, humorous, persuasive and knowledgeable can be very engaging and motivating. However, often this allows their group to remain passive. Consequently their group...
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What Alpha Taught me about Leading Small Groups
Alpha is about sharing God's love through friendship. Do this by listening well, taking interest, learning from everyone's point of view, and affirming group members so they feel heard.
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Soul Care for Small Group Leaders
Healthy leadership requires a healthy soul, something we often neglect. Learn to care for your soul and lead out of the overflow of your deepening relationship with Christ.
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Leading a Small Group in a Chaotic World
We are all busy, so making it to a weekly face-to-face small group can be tough. How can we leverage technology and other creative ways to keep our groups alive?
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How to be a Better Pastor
Build your confidence, and skill level, in using this simple path to getting your people unstuck and on their way.
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Pastoring People Through Pain
Caring for people who are suffering is immensely important. Often, it is also very hard. In fact, it may be one of the areas of life where we most keenly feel the distance between our desire to help and our actual ability to do so. Sometimes that inability stems from our unhelpful compulsion to...
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Coaching: Why? How? What?
Gain valuable insight into the unique purpose and value of the coaching role. Learn how to develop essential coaching strategies and apply key skills as a Small Group Coach.
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Owning Shared Vision and Values
Learn to create a shared vision and values with your group members. What do you see and feel when you picture your ideal group meeting together? How is your role in that ideal scenario different from the current reality? What is needed to set a course for that desirable destination? This workshop...
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Responding to Challenging Styles of Communication
We have all felt the impact of someone undermining a conversation. Awkwardness, frustration and distrust often follow. Why is that? Part of the explanation may be that we begin to question the purpose and safety of the interaction, and perhaps, of the relationship. These styles of communication...
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Listening to Hear and to Love
In Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard David W. Augsburger says that, "Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable." Are there people who listen to you in this way? Do the people in your community feel heard by you and each other? As we…
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Invitational Living with Steve Carter
In this episode of the Discipleship Monthly Podcast, we sit down with Steve Carter to talk evangelism. It seems to us that the holiday stretch from Thanksgiving through the New Year is a time when many people are a little more open to the big questions of life, and we wanted to get Steve's...
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Confessional Community with Bill Donahue
In the second episode of The Discipleship Monthly Podcast we sit down with the "venerable" Bill Donahue to talk about what makes for real community, and what gets in the way. Have a note pad ready, because Bill's bringing wisdom every leader needs.
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The Journey Begins
In our initial Discipleship Monthly Podcast we're talking to two ministry veterans, Ashlee Eiland and Cindy Blaski, about who was instrumental in discipling them and what advice they have for those who are serious about helping others grow in Christ.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Be encouraged, equipped and empowered to help people grow as fully devoted followers of Jesus.
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Willow Creek Community Church
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Be encouraged, equipped and empowered to help people grow as fully devoted followers of Jesus.
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Group Life Podcast is created and hosted by Willow Creek Community Church.
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