PART ONE: Working with Cells The focus of this manual is leadership in cell or small groups, primarily those that aim to nurture disciples, though the skills and insights will also apply readily to ministry teams and evangelistic outreach/discussion groups, the other main types of cells. Logically, the first focus is on the cell strategy, and on clarifying key issues, objectives and tasks. This is the focus of the first module, Handling a Cell Group. Given the importance and controversy surrounding it, the issue of spiritual gifts in cells will be addressed. The section rounds off with a Bible study on body life, suitable for use in a cell group to orient its members to Christian life and service. It is expected that participants will read and discuss the first module. Gifts in cells can be studied with this module in one session, or separately, depending on circumstances. Cell leaders will also benefit if they do the Bible study together. A very useful practical exercise would then be to plan a term or semester of meetings and activities for your cells, in light of what you have learned. Then, through regular meetings of the cells of cell leaders, implementation challenges can be raised and addressed. After the semester, it would be very useful to meet again to review what was studied, in light of concrete experience.
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