To prepare
God’s people for the works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built
up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God
and become mature…
Ephesians
4:12 & 13
Preparing for your next meeting is one of the most important
things you can do as a leader. Don’t wing it, plan it.
What are the things you have to prepare? They are simple but
each one is important to making a lasting impact on your group.
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Pray for guidance. Pray for each one in the
group individually. Pray for God to be honored.
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Prepare the room where the meeting is to be
held. Are there enough chairs and are they suitably arranged to complement your
goals? Is the room the right size?
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Prepare the material you will present. Will the
materials need to be adapted to meet the goals you have set?
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Plan for ways to highlight important points.
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Think ahead about your group prayer time.
Indentifying ways to pray about you have studied together.
You have a limited amount of time to make an impact on people’s
lives, so make it count. Every day there are thousands of sights and sounds
that pass through the mind. Most of them are dismissed by the frontal cortex of
our brains, but some of them are sent to the cortex for storage in long-term
memory. These are the things you remember.
Each year I go to the annual meeting of a para-church
organization which I support, and there I hear a guest speaker. This year, the
day after the meeting, I could not recall what the speaker said the night
before but I could still remember what another speaker said the year before. One
speaker made an impression that made a lasting difference in my life. The other
did not.
As you prepare for your small group meeting, identify those
ideas which are most important and plan for ways to emphasize and illustrate
them in ways that will remember long after you meet.
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