The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians: A Discussion Guide for Small Groups
By Garry D. Poole and Bill Hybels
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Garry D. Poole
As Willow Creek Community Church's key evangelism leader for over sixteen years, Garry Poole is the innovator of seeker small groups and a strategist of creative outreach initiatives. Passionate about reaching people for Christ, Garry and his team have trained thousands of leaders to launch seeker small groups in their own settings. His award-winning book, Seeker Small Groups, provides a detailed blueprint for facilitating small group discussions that assist spiritual seekers with investigating Christianity. He also wrote The Complete Book of Questions, a collection of 1001 conversation starters and numerous group study guides including The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians; The Tough Questions Series, and Experiencing the Passion of Jesus (with Lee Strobel) to accompany Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ. In 2005, it became the first discussion guide ever to receive the prestigious Charles “Kip” Jordon Christian Book of the Year award. Garry lives in suburban Chicago.
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The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians - Garry D. Poole
The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians
Other Resources by Garry Poole
The Complete Book of Questions
Seeker Small Groups
In the Tough Questions Series:
Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil?
How Does Anyone Know God Exists?
Why Become a Christian?
Tough Questions Leader’s Guide (with Judson Poling)
The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians
A Discussion Guide for Small Groups
Garry Poole
foreword by Bill Hybels
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The Three Habits of Highly Contagious Christians
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Half Title Page
Other Resources by Garry Poole
Title Page
Copyright
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
SESSION 1 HANG OUT TOGETHER
SESSION 2 LOOK FOR OPEN WINDOWS
SESSION 3 MAKE THE INVITATION
IMPACT LIST
DO VS. DONE
THE THREE HABITS OF HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS CHRISTIANS
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
SEEKER SMALL GROUPS
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF QUESTIONS
TOUGH QUESTIONS
Willow Creek Association
About the Publisher
Share Your Thoughts
FOREWORD
Lost people matter. This phrase reflects the heart of God and the heartbeat of Willow Creek Community Church. It’s why we work so hard to build relationships with people who are far from God, put together high-impact services, and communicate the Gospel creatively and clearly. We have been seized by the vision that God wants to use our lives, our relationships, our words, and our collective efforts to impact the people around us for all of eternity.
And as fully devoted followers of Christ, we are called upon to fulfill our redemptive potential. It’s our job, according to Luke 15, to search high and low as we go wherever we need to go and do whatever we need to do to reach people throughout our spheres of influence. People with names and faces. People we care about deeply. People in our families, our neighborhoods, our workplaces, and our schools. And it takes each of us doing our part, with God’s help, to reach those all around us.
Can you be counted on? Are you in? Will you enroll in this great redemptive adventure? I believe it’s what you want to do. There’s no greater endeavor. There’s nothing your seeking friends need more. There’s nothing that would better please the heart of God.
How do you start? That’s the question this