GROUP LEADER RESOURCES
Below you’ll find resources that will help you as a Group Leader. If you have any questions about how to use these resources, or what your Group needs, don’t hesitate to reach out to your local Campus Group Director!
RESOURCES
Weekly Groups Discussion Guide – great for a Group who wants to discuss the Sunday sermon and live out the Faith together.
Best Practices for leading a Group – helpful tips to brush up on so you’re always leading your best!
Cross Point App: Groups Management Guide – reference guide for managing your Group roster, attendance and other details within the Cross Point App.
Group Meeting Template – a helpful guide for Groups to frame their time together, practice the 7 Rhythms of a disciple, and live on mission together.
Resources for 7 Discipleship Rhythms:
Daily Devotion
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- Bible reading plan (YouVersion, etc.)
- SOAPS method
- The Bible Project
- Goal: Help you understand the story and authority of scripture and develop a daily habit.
- Recommended curriculum: Story of God
- Tools:
- Bible reading plan (YouVersion, etc.)
- SOAPS method
- The Bible Project
Prayer
- Prayer
- Goal: Help you learn to connect with God and build rhythms of prayer into your daily life.
- Recommended curriculum: The Prayer Course
- Tools: Prayer Tool – How to Pray the Lord’s Prayer
Repentance
- Goal: Help you learn to admit your brokenness, to seek forgiveness from God and others, and to receive by His grace the power to change.
- Curriculum: The Gospel Centered Life
- Tools: Communion
Sacrificial Generosity
- Goal: Help you grow in understanding and practice that we are stewards, not owners, of God’s resources.
- Recommended curriculum: Get FreedUp
- Tools: YNAB
Serve the Community
- Goal: Help you serve the community and live on mission by loving your community in tangible ways, discerning how God has gifted you specifically.
- Recommended curriculum: The Art of Neighboring
- Tools: Local Good Opportunities
Share Your Story
- Goal: Help you grow in competence and confidence sharing the story God is redeeming, both for you and the world.
- Recommended curriculum: The Story Training
- Tools:
Worship
- Goal: Help you see all of life as a way of worshipping God.
- Recommended curriculum: All of Life as Worship
- Tools:
- Communion
- Singing together
Additional Resources:
Community & Formation
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- The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder & Michel Hendricks
- How People Change by Timothy Lane & Paul Tripp
- When the Church Was a Family by Joseph H. Hellerman
- We Belong Together by Bruce Mille
- Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Gifts by Sam Storms
Spiritual Practices
- Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
- Advent Devotional
Understanding the Bible
- The True Story of the Whole World — Craig Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen
- God’s Big Picture — Vaughan Roberts
- Knowledge of the Holy — AW Tozer
- A Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent
- Alpha
- The Bible Project
Theology & Apologetics
- Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves
- Simply Christian by NT Wright
- Reason for God by Tim Keller
- Theology & Mission
- Image of God
Prayer & Fasting
Sin & Repentance
- The Prodigal God — Tim Keller
- Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be — Cornelius Plantinga
Generosity
- The Treasure Principle — Randy Alcorn
- Gospel Patrons — John Rinehart
Missional Living
- When Helping Hurts — Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett
- Art of Neighboring — Dave Runyon and Jay Pathak
- How (Not) to be Secular by James K.A. Smith
- Visions of Vocations by Stephen Garber
- Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Pulman
- Great Commission Tools
Worship
- The Air I Breathe by Louie Giglio
- The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Marriage & Sexuality
- The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
- People to be Loved by Preston Sprinkle