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	<title>Why Didn't You Warn Me?</title>
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	<description>Dealing with Small Group Challenges</description>
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		<title>The Law of Entropy</title>
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A while back we watched the movie I Am Legend. In the movie, a virus has spread across the planet and turned the human race into bloodthirsty monsters. Now, mankind&#8217;s only hope for survival is scientist Robert Neville (played by Will Smith), the one person left unaffected by the epidemic. When he&#8217;s not fighting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/03/10/the-law-of-entropy/</link>
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		<title>The Bad Apple Effect</title>
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Dan Lentz posted a great article on SmallGroups.com on what he calls the bad apple effect. I call it the challenging people effect. No matter what you call it, it can create havoc in your group.
Dan cites a business-based study by Terence Mitchell, a professor of management and organization, and recently published by the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/02/19/the-bad-apple-effect/</link>
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		<title>Shaken, Not Shattered</title>
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I&#8217;ve just completed a review copy of Shaken Not Shattered: Finding the Purpose, Passion, and Power to Stand Firm When Your World Falls Apart by Matthew Hagee, son of Pastor John Hagee. This is a simple book, but it could be useful for group members who are seeing their worlds shaken. And these days, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/02/05/shaken-not-shattered/</link>
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		<title>Valuing the Unlovely</title>
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Do you have challenging people in your small group? People who don&#8217;t fit in anywhere? I love this quote from S.D. Gaede in Belonging: Our need for Community in Church and Family (Zondervan: 1985).
“More than anything else, community in the modern world depends on our willingness to emulate the Samaritan’s choice—on our willingness to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/01/27/valuing-the-unlovely/</link>
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		<title>How to Prepare for a Bible Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m excited to announce that SmallGroups.com has released a new download with one of my favorite articles. The download is “How to Prepare for a Bible Study”  My article is How to Study for the Long Haul: An easy-to-use system for interacting with God&#8217;s Word over the course of years.
 

This article describes a method [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/01/08/how-to-prepare-for-a-bible-study/</link>
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		<title>Forever Friends</title>
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Some groups stand the test of time. Today we’ll be celebrating with friends from one of those. When the Lord yanked me out of the miry pit in 1976, He immediately plunked me into San Francisco Careers, a non-denominational citywide singles ministry in San Francisco. That group was amazing. Lay led, no staff, little money. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2010/01/01/forever-friends/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-3/</link>
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		<title>Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity</title>
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Let me just say it. I love Mark Batterson. In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day is one of my all time favorite books, which I reviewed in July 2008.  Now he’s written another book: Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity and it’s almost as good.
Batterson says we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2009/12/22/primal-a-quest-for-the-lost-soul-of-christianity/</link>
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		<title>Biblical Foundations for Freedom</title>
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I’ve been doing a lot of personal ministry lately and have been increasingly impressed again with a book that I carry in my store. I wanted to share it with you in case you need a last minute gift for Christmas. It’s Biblical Foundations for Freedom: Destroying Satan’s Lies with God’s Truth by Art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2009/12/16/biblical-foundations-for-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Squeezing Good Out of Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your life filled with lemons? Perhaps your life is fine, but someone you know is going through hard times. For example, two families in our small group have been forced to sell their homes in this down market. Another has a son in jail. I just learned today that my brother-in-law was laid off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whydidntyouwarnme.com/2009/12/01/squeezing-good-out-of-bad/</link>
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