Jesus gave his followers two commands which we call the Great Commandment: Love God and Love Your Neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). What if we literally loved our actual neighbors? Not just the people we might pick and choose, but the people living next door and across from us. Some might start by getting to know your neighbors’ names. For others it might mean praying for their neighbor or serving them. This isn’t an evangelism strategies. In fact, we don’t love our neighbors to win them to Christ. We love them because we are Christians. Think of The Neighboring Life more as a spiritual discipline than a ministry project. After all, your neighbors won’t like to be treated like a project anyway. But, everyone appreciates kindness. The study guide and companion video curriculum is designed to help you understand the nature of neighboring, to inspire you with stories about neighboring, and to motivate you to take action, even if they’re baby steps, in your own neighborhood. No special talent is required. Everyone can be a neighbor!

The Neighboring Life Study Guide

Religion & Spirituality

Rusaw, Rick

Mavis, Brian

Colon, Kevin

Petty, Krista

Christian Books & Bibles

Allen White Consulting, Inc.

Becoming the Neighboring Church Companion Study and Launch Guide is two books in one. The Companion Study offers church leaders the opportunity to fully digest the content of The Neighboring Church book by Rick Rusaw and Brian Mavis by providing discussion questions for each section of the book. The Companion Study should be used with The Neighboring Church DVD which is integrated into each week's session. This will prepare your church leaders including pastors, staff, elders, key influencers, and others to launch neighboring in your church. The Launch Guide is a full church-wide campaign manual for launching The Neighboring Life study to your entire congregation. The Launch Guide gives practical steps on recruiting a launch team, preparing for the launch, recruiting group leaders, forming new groups, and all of the details you need for a successful launch.

Becoming a Neighboring Church Companion Study and Launch Guide

White, Allen

Now that you’ve stepped forward to lead a group or are currently leading a group, you have made yourself available for God to use you. And, he will! There is no more thrilling experience than to allow God to minister through you to your group members. You will see prayers answered. You will see lives transformed. You will witness potential leaders growing out of your group. That may sound like a lot, but it’s not your work. It’s God’s work in you and through you. Your role is making yourself available to fulfill God’s purposes in your group.Leading Healthy Groups is a complete guide to leading small groups which was created for both new and experienced group leaders. Whether you are leading your very first meeting and are unsure of how to arrange the furniture to handling childcare to navigating group dynamics and special situations, Allen draws from his 28 years of ministry experience to guide you every step of the way.Group life certainly involves meetings to study God’s Word, but it involves so much more in becoming a healthy, dynamic small group. In this book, you will learn how to:Start Your Group, if you’re leading for the first time.Connect with Your Coach (or even find one).Plan Your First Meeting (step by step).Develop Your Group Members.Make Disciples.Navigate Group Dynamics.Set Group Boundaries (so you don’t burn out).Launch Others into Leadership.Based on questions asked by his own small group leaders, Allen takes the time to walk you through what will help your group and what might hurt your group. Hundreds of small group leaders have benefited from this training already.

Leading Healthy Groups: A Guide for Small Group Leaders

This six week small group study helps a group navigate their expectations, honest conversations,using spiritual gifts, growing spiritually,resolving conflict, and reaching others.

Community: Six Weeks to a Healthy Group

Online groups aren't new. After all, I started my first online small group in 1994 on CompuServe with a dial-up modem. While they're not new, online groups are next.Apart from the technology, there are many commonalities between online small groups and offline small groups, yet they are not exactly the same. With online groups people are not gathered in the same room and in some cases, they're not even in the same state, province, or country. Online groups are portable. Snowbirds can stay connected whether they're in the North or the South. Online groups break down many limitations. Time of day, distance, and travel no longer deter online groups. Whether the group meets by video, audio, or asynchronously (and even occasionally in-person), online groups provide flexibility to both make disciples and engage spiritual seekers.Leading Online Small Groups is a complete guide to online groups and is adapted from Leading Healthy Groups by Allen White. Whether you are leading your very first online meeting and are unsure of how to navigate the software to handling childcare to navigating group dynamics and special situations, Allen draws from his over 30 years of ministry experience to guide you every step of the way.Online group life certainly involves meetings to study God's Word, but it involves so much more in becoming a healthy, dynamic small group. In this book, you will learn how to: Chapter 1: Start Your Online Group, if you're leading for the first time.Chapter 2: Connect with Your Coach (or even find one).Chapter 3: Plan Your First Online Meeting (step by step).Chapter 4: Develop Your Group Members.Chapter 5: Make Disciples.Chapter 6: Navigate Online Group Dynamics.Chapter 7: Set Group Boundaries (so you don't burn out).Chapter 8: Launch Others into Leadership.Based on his own experience with online small groups as well as his general experience with small groups, Allen guides you through the complexity of online groups and relationship in general.

Leading Online Small Groups: Embracing the Church's Digital Future