Books : A Spiritual Formation Workbook: Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth/a Renovare Resource for Spiritual Renewal
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by: James Bryan Smith
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 253.7
EAN: 9780060669652
ISBN: 0060669659
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1993-03
Publisher: HarperOne
Sales Rank: 461732
Studio: HarperOne
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Product Description:
A RENOVAR resource for spiritual renewal--This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting up, study plans for the first eight sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Best Small Group Model Around
What separates this small group guide from others is that it provides a framework for all future groups that actually contains concrete paths to real character transformation. That framework has some key components: (1) An emphasis on trying spiritual exercises in your everyday life, with plenty of ideas for exercises provided; (2) An emphasis on growing toward a balanced spiritual life, centered around 6 areas of spirituality: personal prayer, holiness, interaction with the Holy Spirit, compassion ... Read More
Rating: - Great exploration with little planning
I've worked as a small group minister for years now, and I feel that this workbook is excellent for starting a group of established Christians. Each discussion is clearly mapped out with leader's instructions in the margins. Through the course six different aspects or facets of Jesus are presented, and almost no one is intimately familiar with all six, so it stands to minister to long time church goers. But the new Christian will be strengthened too.
Other Christian authors are writing about Jesus ... Read More
Rating:  - Educational and edifying ....
This is a great resource for bringing more balance into your life. The book describes six ways of meeting God - Holiness, Charismatic, Contemplative, Social Justice, Incarnational, and Evangelical - and sometimes these words don't mean what you think they mean. The authors encourage the reader to broaden their relationship with and vision of God, and for me, I was able to see God working more powerfully, and in many more ways, than before.
Rating: - A Great Start
I purchased several of these books to lead a spiritual formation group in my parish. The book has helped my people share their faith and their struggles in that faith. It has also introduced them to the concept of accountability, which is always good.
The only problem that I encountered is the tremendous amount of oral reading required for each lesson. Some of my folks are self-conscious about their reading skills and as you take turns reading, it can be laborioius. Other than that, I would ... Read More
Rating: - Great Guide for Streams of Living Water
Adding in the how to the why. This book is a great handbook to go along with Streams of Living Water.
Streams is a book that takes about the different "streams" of Christianity and provides references and information on those different streams.
This handbook brings out the how of each stream. Each chapter deals with a different stream and how to practice that stream. There are real live applications for you to use to become better immersed in the particular stream.
This ... Read More
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