This book looks at the theology and history of small group ministry as well as vital leadership models, and successful U.S. small group models. A new flexible, hybrid small group model is created and presented for consideration.

It's a proven fact that your retention rate increases whenever you engage more of your five senses in wrestling with a thought, teaching, or book. This Huddle Playbook/Workbook allows you to use your untapped senses for greater learning while answering workbook questions and also in stimulating conversations with other personal growth-oriented men in a men's huddle small group. What did YOU say? What did that book page say? My point exactly We need all the retention help, accountability, and personal application help we can get. Men's huddle small groups meeting in homes, health clubs,...

After years of trying to be the perfect son, husband, father, and perfect pastor...Mark Elliott slays his dragons of perfectionism, isolation, and superficiality. As mistakes and disappointment happen along his life's journey, Dr. Elliott, a newly transparent, middle-aged pastor confronts his demons of image-conscious paralysis, legalistic upbringing, and unfair judgments by others. In Confessions of an Insignificant Pastor: What Every Pastor Wishes They Could Tell You, Pastor Elliott bares his soul as he takes a brutally honest look at the person we are on the inside that few people ever...