LEADER'S GUIDE
Expectations & Helpful Tips
In short, group leaders are responsible for 3 things:
Registration: Go to the registration page to register your group. We will be sending weekly update emails so please collect email addresses from ALL group members.
Submitting Points: Each week, participants can score up to 10 points in each area of growth (50 possible points). At the end of the week, leaders should collect members’ point totals and submit them on the Forged & Refined website. Group leaders can use their own discretion as to whether something “counts” or not. Feel free to count “partial points” if somebody completes some but not all of a challenge.
Weekly Meetings: Your group should meet once each week in person or via phone or video chat. As the group leader, we also encourage you to engage with your group throughout the week with text messages or quick calls.
- Registration for all group members.
- Submitting weekly points for all group members.
- Organizing weekly meetings or phone/video chats.
Registration: Go to the registration page to register your group. We will be sending weekly update emails so please collect email addresses from ALL group members.
Submitting Points: Each week, participants can score up to 10 points in each area of growth (50 possible points). At the end of the week, leaders should collect members’ point totals and submit them on the Forged & Refined website. Group leaders can use their own discretion as to whether something “counts” or not. Feel free to count “partial points” if somebody completes some but not all of a challenge.
Weekly Meetings: Your group should meet once each week in person or via phone or video chat. As the group leader, we also encourage you to engage with your group throughout the week with text messages or quick calls.
Suggested questions to help facilitate your group discussion:
Accountability
General
- What went well this week? Why do you think it worked well?
- What didn’t go so well? Why do you think you struggled in this area?
- How can we as a group better support your goals?
General
- Outside of Forged & Refined, how was your week? Discuss biggest highs and biggest lows.
- Do you have any prayer needs regarding family or friends?
- Do you have any prayer needs specific to yourself?
- Is there anything the group can help you with in the upcoming week?
Dig Deeper: The questions above might be enough for your entire meeting, but feel free to use those below if you’d like to dig deeper...
Bible Study
Prayer
Service
Self-Discipline
Bible Study
- What was the biggest thing you learned this week?
- Do you have any questions about something you read?
Prayer
- Were you able to stop what you are doing and really spend time talking to Jesus?
- Who have you been adding to your prayer list?
- Have you seen any answer to prayer this week?
Service
- Which service challenge did you pick this week?
- What did you enjoy about the challenge?
- What have you learned about your spiritual gifts?
- How are you serving in the local church?
Self-Discipline
- Did you have any “cheat days” this week? If so, why? Was it a good reason or did you just slip up?
- What has this challenge taught you about yourself?
- What has the challenge taught you about God?