EVANGELISM
1. Going Public Your Faith *(S)In every part of the world, people are looking for spiritual answers and resources as never before. However, you don't need to travel to some exotic foreign mission field to find hungry hearts. You spend hours every day in the most strategic place of impact in the world - your workplace! Going Public With Your Faith offers a proven model for evangelism that respects the unique relationships you have with your coworkers, clients, and customers. It shows how you can be authentic instead of artificial when sharing what you believe, build trust with even the most skeptical person, and cultivate caring connections with those who have not yet come to a saving faith in Christ.
2. Go Fish ** (S, S/G)This new study by Andy Stanley will take the struggle out of sharing your faith. Go Fish offers a new perception of the word "evangelism" by showing how believers can make it natural, easy part of everyday life. Divided into a six-session study, participants will enjoy the DVD lessons and thought-provoking study guide that help change the way they view sharing their faith. Sessions:
We Were All Fish Once
Why Fish?
Fish Guts
Fishing Buddies
Muddy Water
The One That Got Away
3. What is so amazing about Grace*Grace is the church's great distinctive. It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world.
In What's So Amazing About Grace?, award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. What is grace? If grace is God's love for the undeserving, then what does it look like in action? If Christians are its sole dispensers, how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of grace's life-changing power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know What's So Amazing About Grace?

4. The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians **(B)
Jesus' call to spread the good news is a big challenge---so we need some practical steps and tools to help us. Poole offers three easy-to-use suggestions that show you how to build relationships with seekers, share the gospel with them, and bring them to outreach events. Simple, achievable habits---that matter for eternity!
5. H2O - A Journey of Faith (E)Water. Our world couldn’t exist without it. It covers our planet and fills our bodies. It keeps us alive. Jesus knew how important water was. Maybe that’s why he called himself the living water. He was making a claim and an offer too good to ignore. H2O is about water, the living water Jesus said he offered. If you’re thirsty, you owe it to yourself to consider what he said…and who he is.
H2O is a DVD-driven, ten-session experience designed to create a safe atmosphere where people are comfortable considering the person of Jesus Christ. Through high-definition video, H2O uses carfefully crafted storytelling to reach a media-savvy generation.
6. Becoming a Contagious Christian *** (S, S/G)People matter to God. That foundational truth is why Bill Hybels planted a church where people can hear a clear, contemporary presentation of the gospel, relate to others who have decided to follow Jesus and respond to the life-changing good news of the gospel. In Becoming a Contagious Christian you will discover why we are called to be Contagious Christians, how authenticity, compassion and sacrifice help us relate to seekers and how to clearly share the gospel with those you love. This resource is designed for Sunday school, small group and individual study. Let Becoming a Contagious Christian revitalize your passion for evangelism and enable you to fulfill Christ's Great Commission!FAMILIES & COUPLES
1. Love Talk * (D)This Women’s workbook will help you personalize the concepts you encounter in the Parrotts’ book Love Talk and put them to work in your relationship. Inside, you’ll find exercises, assessments, self-tests, tips, applications..all the tools and guidance you need to :
Identify your personal communication style
Understand how it interacts with that of your partner
Talk your way to a healthier, stronger relationship
Love Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.
This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer…consistently, in a way that crates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.
Men’s workbook will be available at the end of year 2007.
2. Love and Respect ** (D)A wife has one driving need – to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need – to feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Love and Respect reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily and biblically.3. Real Life Stuff for Couples Series
a) Real Life Stuff for Couples on Completing Demands - “Dancing the tango in an earthquake”
Between taking care of the kids, climbing the corporate ladder, and paying the bills, you know you would like to have a fulfilling marriage. It was supposed to just sort of happen, but everything else takes up so much time and energy! Why not take back some of that time to focus on your marriage?
Dancing the Tango in an Earthquake features relevant passages from the Message, literary and cultural insights, and conversation starters to provoke profound discussion. Together with your spouse or a couples’ small group, read excerpts about seven major marriage distractions and how you can prevent them from clouding your view of the ultimate prize: a marriage that works.
b) Real Life Stuff for Couples on Staying Married - “Running a three-legged race across time”
In one word, describe your marriage. If you answered anything other than “perfect”, you need the honest truth from this new Bible discussion guide on staying married in a culture hostile to marriage.
The eight sessions of Running a Three-legged Race Across Time feature literary and cultural insights, conversation starters, and key passages from the best-selling Message Bible. Each chapter is an open, free-flowing discussion about a tricky issue many married couples encounter (and ignore at their own peril).
Running a Three-Legged Race Across Time avoids stale, glib answers and instead points you toward honest questions that every couple should be asking themselves. Read it together, read it on your own, but take a little time to think about your marriage, and how to stay married till death do you part.
SERVING

1. Dethroning the Idol of Business **
There is no doubt that ministry has its rewards – we have the privilege of being used by God to impact lives for today and eternity. But ministry also comes with demands that necessitate personal care and nurture. Using four different symbols, John Ortberg communicates to the viewer specific skills to help those they minister alongside to develop their hearts and souls, as well as their own.
2. Healing is a Choice *** (C, S/G)
The power to heal – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually – is in God’s hands. But the choice to be healed is yours. Everyone, at some level, needs healing. You may have prayed for healing many times, for many years. Perhaps you have lived with your brokenness so long that you have become accustomed to it. Maybe you wonder just when God is going to take all the hurt away.
He can. But you also must choose to let the hurt go and let the healing begin.
In Healing Is a Choice, author Stephen Arterburn outlines ten choices crucial to receiving healing. Embracing these choices means rejecting the lies we often tell ourselves. These are not hoops God requires you to jump through to earn your miracle; they form, instead, the journey He desires for you. He can, and will, walk with you. But you must put one foot in front of the other.
LEADERSHIP

1. Lead Like Jesus ****(D)
Christians have more in Jesus than just a great spiritual leader: We have a practical and effective leadership model for all organizations, for all people, for all situations. Jesus is simply the greatest leadership model of all time, and He asks us to make a difference in the world we live in by being effective servant leaders. This Lead Like Jesus study is designed to be the beginning of a new exciting chapter in your group member’s personal journeys to become effective servant leaders. The study includes introductory session and eight weeks of group study sessions. We focus on four dimensions in our Lead Like Jesus encounters:
HEART (intention and motivation)
HEAD (belief and theories about leadership)
HANDS (leadership methods and behaviors)
HABITS (strategies to redirect our commitment to lead like Jesus everyday)
2. Courageous Leadership ****(B)
In Courageous Leadership Bill Hybels provides a wonderful mix of time-tested leadership principles, engaging examples from his ministry at Willow Creek and enough inspiring anecdotes to fill an entire sermon series. The principles that Hybels emphasizes will help you: lead your people into the presence of God, impact the ministers who are serving beside you and, most importantly, effectively lead yourself so that you can consistently provide trustworthy guidance for others. Surely, as Publisher's Weekly proclaimed, "this is a welcome edition to any pastor's library."
Please consult Anders before you use any curriculum for your small group.