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Your Group on MKDSCPLS: A Leader's How-To

Your Group on MKDSCPLS: A Leader's How-To

BeginnerGroup study5 sessions5 lessons

About twenty five minutes, five short steps, for anyone who leads a group. How to get people in, what you can see about each of them, the notes only leaders read, and how to raise the next leader out of the group you already have.

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Step 1: What makes you a leader here

    What leader, co-leader and mentor mean here, and what each one can see.

    ~3 min
  2. 2

    Step 2: Getting people in

    The four ways to bring people in, and which one to use when.

    ~4 min
  3. 3

    Step 3: Three ways one person walks with another

    Chaver, mentor and recommend: ways to walk with one person, not only a whole group.

    ~3 min
  4. 4

    Step 4: Your people, one screen at a time

    A guided walk through the group Manage view, with your own group open beside it.

    ~8 min
  5. 5

    Step 5: Building a leadership team

    Spot your next leaders, give them real work, and hand the group on.

    ~5 min

Sample lesson

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Step 2: Getting people in

Four doors, and which one to use

Three of these live in one place: Groups in the left menu, then your group, then Manage. The fourth is in the menu itself. They do different things, and picking the wrong one is why an invitation sometimes lands with a stranger who has no idea what it is.

The asking is not on the platform

41The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).John 1:41-42 · NIV

The first thing Andrew did was find his brother and bring him. He did not send anything. He went and got him. Every tool above is the paperwork after that conversation, and none of it will do the conversation for you.

Four things that make the answer yes more often, from leaders who fill groups:

  • Ask face to face, or on the phone. A text asks someone to decide alone. Asking in person lets them decide with you in front of them, which is a different question.
  • Ask them to something finite and specific. "Eight Tuesdays, six thirty, we are working through Character" beats "you should join my group" every time, because they can picture saying yes to it and they can picture it ending.
  • Ask two people at once, or ask one and ask them to bring one. Somebody who is bringing another person turns up, because now it is not only about them.
  • Send the invitation the same day, while the yes is still warm. The gap between "sure, sounds good" and an email a fortnight later is where most of them are lost.

Name three people you would ask this month, and for each one write the specific thing you would ask them to. Not "join my group". The weeks, the night, and what you are studying.

Ask them this week. Then come back and use the box.

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