The Companions in Christ Leader's Guide may be the most user-friendly and comprehensive guide available. It provides leaders with a complete outline for each of the 28 weekly meetings, full content for each meeting including simple worship experiences for opening and closing times, music suggestions, lists of items needed each week, and notice of any unique needs in future weeks. All weekly group gatherings follow the same general outline: -- Opening time of worship and centering -- Sharing insights from the weekly readings and exercises -- Break -- Deeper explorations through a group experience -- Closing worship Leading a spiritual formation group requires distinctive leadership skills. The Leader's Guide helps leaders identify and develop such qualities as patience, trust, listening, and acceptance.
A full release of these feelings not only leads to the wholeness that Christ taught but also takes us on a path of freedom and joy. A unique feature of this book is the inclusion of a reproduction of Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son.
Are you bogged down in your spiritual journey? Does church seem to hinder more than it helps? Here is a welcoming and realistic guide for all who may be feeling spiritually jaded.
There is an increasing sense of uncertainty in the world.
The two parts of the book roughly correspond to the interdependent tasks of historical description and critical and theological reflection.
This book is the first segment of a five-volume study of the original 28-week Companions in Christ resource.
Supporting resource for the Participant's Book. This guide provides everything leaders need to prepare and conduct small-group studies of The Way of Discernment.
Companions With Christ takes us on a journey through the book of Hebrews. It not only explains the book, it connects it to our spiritual formation.
Between the weekly meetings, participants maintain a journal as they complete readings and daily exercises. However, this is much more than a Bible study!
Yet, something so natural and seemingly so easy comes hard sometimes. The Way of Prayer is a 10-week small-group study about the nature, practice, and results of prayer.
Explore the depths of the Word, learn to listen to God through it, and allow your life to be shaped by it. This book is the second segment of a five-volume study of the original 28-week Companions in Christ resource.