Being a home group leader is really not easy. For the three years I led a home group, I only rarely felt I'd "got it right", and I found it far harder than preaching or leading or one-to-oneing. How you teach the Bible, how you encourage and guide the discussion, how you phrase questions… these are all things learned mainly through experience/mistakes/stumbling across what works.
Now there's a bit of a short cut: at this new blog for home group leaders, you can find some "potted proverbs". Well worth going to if you're a home group leader, obviously, but also if you're a home group member, so you can see what home groups can and should be, and how you can be a really encouraging part of it.
Just a quick flavour of the latest couple of posts:
Carl is Publisher and Co-CEO at The Good Book Company and is a member of Life Church Hackbridge in south London. He is the bestselling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as Series Editor of the God's Word For You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.
