Resources for your group
The resources on this page are suggested by the Summit Small Groups team to help you find materials you can use to launch a small group in your circle of influence. That might be a neighborhood, workplace, or group of friends. They are categorized by topic to help you find a resource that fits the type of group you are hoping to get going.
Marriage
Resource: Book
Author: Tim Keller
The Meaning of Marriage. Timothy Keller, along with Kathy, his wife of thirty-six years, draws a profound portrait of marriage from the pages of Scripture that neither idealizes nor rejects the institution but points us back to the relationship between God and man. The result is a vision for marriage that is refreshingly frank and unsentimental, yet hopeful and beautiful. This book is for anyone from singles, to couples considering marriage, to those who have been married recently or for a long time.
Resource: Small Group Study
Author: Nick & Sila Lee
The Marriage Course, Alpha Marriage Series
The marriage Course is a series of seven lessons designed to help any couple strengthen their relationship.
The seven sessions cover: Building Strong Foundations, The Art of Communication, Resolving Conflict, The Power of Forgiveness, The impact of family, Good Sex, and Love in Action
This DVD also includes a session for The Marriage Course Party, a chance for potential guests to find out more about the course, while also providing an extra session for couples in the military entitles Coping with Times of Separation
Hard Questions
Resource: Small Group Study
Author: Tim Keller
Captured live and unscripted, pastor and author Timothy Keller meets with a group of people over six sessions to address their doubts and objections to Christianity. Using literature, philosophy, real-life experiences, and the Bible, Keller and the group explore the truth of Christianity.
This Discussion Guide and accompanying DVD will help you and your group learn how to engage others in dialogue on six common objections to Christianity. Whether in a group setting or individual conversation, The Reason for God is a resource for what to say in response to these objections, and a model for how to say it.
Beginning Discipleship
Resource: Book
Author: Jerry Bridges
Why does holiness often seem so unattainable? Bridges believes it may be because we're not really sure what it is! In these 12 biblically based lessons, he shows how to live righteously; how reason and emotion influence our will; the impact of habits and personal discipline; and more. For individual or group study.
Introducing Christ
Resource: Book
Author: J.D. Greear
Gospel: Rediscovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
Gospel cuts through the superficiality of religion and reacquaints you with the revolutionary truth of God's gracious acceptance of us in Christ. The gospel is the power of God, and the only true source of joy, freedom, radical generosity, and audacious faith. The gospel produces in us what religion never could: a heart that desires God. SMALL GROUP STUDY
Resource: Small Group Study
Author: Matthias Media
Simply Christianity
Simply Christianity is a simple, jargon-free way of sharing the gospel in a friendly, small group environment. It is a five-week evangelistic course for enquirers—in the mould of Christianity Explored and The Alpha Course—which takes participants through the Gospel of Luke and presents them with the challenging teaching, life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Resource: One to One or Group Study
Author: Campus Outreach, RDU
Taste & See
Each file linked below has a set of thirty-one passages to be read for each day of the month. Along with each passage are questions that help bring clarity to the verses. Print these out and give them to a friend, ask them to reflect on them; towrite out (as instructed in the documents) in a few sentences what they see as the main thought, and then, in a sentence or two, what it means to them; then arrange to get back together in a week or so to discusswhat they are learning. It’s good stuff!
Parenting
Resource: Book
Author: Elise Fitzpatrick
All of us want to raise good kids. And we want to be good parents. But what exactly do we mean by “good?” Mother-daughter team Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson contend that every way we try to make our kids “good” is simply an extension of Old Testament Law—a set of standards that is not only unable to save our children, but also powerless to change them.
Give Them Grace is a revolutionary perspective on parenting that shows us how to receive the gospel afresh and give grace in abundance, helping our children know the dazzling love of Jesus and respond with heartfelt obedience.
Resource: Small Group Study
Author: FamilyLife.com
Home Builders Parenting Series
The Home Builders Parenting Series takes the struggle out of parenting and provides the answers you need to build a strong family. The series includes studies in Establishing Effective Discipline for your Children, Guiding your Teenagers, Improving your Parenting, and Raising Children of Faith.
