Destiny Incubators: A Powerful Approach to Small Groups
Who it’s for: Senior Leaders
Number of videos: 18 videos
Average Length: 9 minutes per video
Topics: Learn how to build small-group ministry into your church in a way that allows every member of your church to be activated in ministry. This step-by-step course will lay out the basics of powerful, multiplying small groups in your church.
Lessons
1. Overview of Small Group Ministry
2. Biblical Basis for Small Groups
Throughout the entire Scripture there has been a strategy for creating smaller units in order to help move people forward. In this lesson, you will become familiar with the biblical understanding for small groups as a methodology.
3. Practical Approach to Small Groups
Small groups start from the foundational culture and leadership core of the church and reproduce outward. In this lesson, you will learn the practicalities of building a small group ministry.
4. Developing a Plan for a Small Group
The planning process is vital for having a reliable blueprint to build your small groups ministry. In this lesson, you will learn about the planning process concerning building a small groups ministry.
5. How to Implement Your Plan
Planning your small groups ministry in every aspect will produce the outcome you envision; including vision, leadership, quality, infrastructure, goals, feedback and multiplication. In this lesson, you will learn how to bring your concept of small groups ministry into reality.
6. Defining Goals for Small Groups
When planning for small groups, always finalize and implement your proposal with your leadership team, as a team. In this lesson, you will learn how to plan a small groups ministry for the intended outcome of every member ministry.
7. Principles of Team Building
Team building is essential in small groups in order to raise up leaders who raise up leaders. In this lesson, you will learn how to start building a team.
8. Biblical Basis of Team Building
Team building is a pattern throughout Scripture that should be modeled in your small groups ministry. In this lesson, you will learn how to replicate the principles of Scripture as you build your small groups ministry team.
9. How to Build a Team
Building a team for a small groups ministry can be done by pulling from existing leaders or building a team from scratch using a simple five-step process: identify, recruit, train, deploy and support. In this lesson, you will learn how to build a small groups ministry team according to this model.
10. How to Model an Experience
Modeling small groups is crucial to presenting a format that people can follow into the future. Most of what we need to know is caught not taught. In this lesson, you will learn how to model your first small group.
11. How to Model the Experience to Your Primary Team
Small groups should be modeled using the early church pattern of Acts 2:42-45 and the five-fold ministry in order to have the elements it needs to thrive. In this lesson, you will learn how to build a small group that models these patterns.
12. How to Model Reproducing a Small Group
If you can create a small group model that is simple, reproducible, efficient, effective and excellent, then you have the foundations in place for a movement of reproducible small groups. In this lesson, you will learn these principles concerning building a reproducible, small group model.
13. The Principle of Multiplying Leaders
Small groups facilitate leadership development which is the greatest commission of Christ; for every believer to be in the process of development within his or her specific calling. In this lesson, you will learn about the importance of raising up leaders within the context of a small groups ministry.
14. Multiplication and Developing Disciples
Every excellent small group provides an abundant measure of these five, essential elements as main keys to develop its members: identity, community, maturity, responsibility and destiny. In this lesson, you will learn how to instill these keys into your small groups ministry.
15. How to Develop Leaders
Small groups are the main leadership development tool where people are measured and developed in five, main areas of leadership qualification: Health, head, heart, hands and help. In this lesson, you will learn how to apply this system of measurement for your small groups ministry.
16. Developing from the Inside Out
God’s strategy for extending His kingdom is to use self-reproducing families. This is what small groups provide like no other ministry does. In this lesson, you will learn the principle of family in God’s methodology for reproducing disciples and leaders within a small group context.
17. The Small Group is the Basic Unit of the Church
All living things reproduce. Small groups facilitate the multiplication of believers, ministers, marketplace ministers, ministries, churches, marketplace small groups and small groups themselves. In this lesson, you will learn about the importance of multiplication as a representation of health and life.
18. How to Develop Small Groups That Multiply
The process of building a small group is modeling a small group, having quality meetings and infrastructure, developing leaders, multiplying the groups, slowly releasing key leadership and instituting coaches. In this lesson, you will learn the process of building a small groups ministry.