Real Small Groups Don't Just Happen: Nurturing Relationships in Your Small Group [Paperback]

Neal McBride (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 1998

Real small groups don’t just happen; they take work. This book will help you understand the elements that can create deeper relationships and functioning healthy small groups.

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TAKE YOUR SMALL GROUP TO THE NEXT LEVEL. Think all it takes to create community is to gather people together? Think again. Community doesn’t just happen-it takes work. Just like friendships take time to develop, a small-group community needs to be nurtured in order to grow. In Real Small Groups Don’t Just Happen, small-group expert Neal McBride takes you on a tour of what it takes to build real community. He examines the elements necessary to nurture a real, functioning, healthy small group that cares for its members and makes a lasting difference in their lives. If you’re ready to take your small group to a new level of trust and intimacy, Real Small Groups Don’t Just Happen is a resource you can’t afford to pass up.

About the Author

Neal McBride is the author of four NavPress books and is the

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576831035
• ISBN-13: 978-1576831038
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Reference for Small Group Leaders, December 9, 2001

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This review is from: Real Small Groups Don't Just Happen: Nurturing Relationships in Your Small Group (Paperback)

Neal McBride has really given us a great resource for the rank and file small group leader corps. This book covers a lot of ground in few pages. It takes the issues and problems to be faced by a small group through its entire life cycle and does so in only 150 pages. This book is written in an easy to read style and is primarily meant for those who may already have done some small group leadership. McBride does a good job of showing the uniqueness of each small group while primarily displaying what characteristics are common to each small group. After reading this book it should be evident to your small group leaders that there is probably nothing that they might experience in a small group that is uncommon with other small groups and that there are people that have experienced and understand their problems. McBride does not stop there and does an admirable job in giving suggestions on how to avoid pitfalls and how to correct problems which might be experienced by the small group. I think this is a must have book for the small group leader who sees small group ministry as a life calling.