Our staff can work with you via one-day consultations to help your church improve growth and development of Bible study, Sunday School and small groups. We can also assist you in developing discipleship, and youth, children and pre-school ministry during a half-day consultation. These consultations are provided at no charge to BGCT churches.
Bible Study Resources
The Bible Study/Discipleship team exists to provide consultations, training, special events, tools and resources to help Texas Baptist congregations develop Acts 1:8 believers.
Sunday School | Small Groups
Consultations
Through individual planning meetings with associational leaders, we ask the simple question, “What do your churches need?” The results have ranged from age-group training events and pastor’s roundtable discussions to individual on-site church consultations, Vacation Bible School training and a variety of customized growth projects. Let us know how we can respond to the particular needs of the churches in your association. We’re ready to come for a visit!
Adult Sunday School
Downloadable Tools and Resources
PDF resources you can instantly download to help your group right now.
- When Do We Drop Someone from the Roll?
- 9 Questions for Choosing Curriculum
- 30 Things we know for sure about adult learning
- 150 Ways to Discover prospects for your Sunday School
- Adult Sunday School Department Job Descriptions
- Are You Killing Sunday School Outreach
- Bible Translation Reading Levels
- Building a Contagious Church – value of small groups
- Checklist for Starting New Units
- How to evaluate Sunday School literature for adults
- How to get first time guests to return
- How to have a Full SS Blanks filled in
- How to Prepare a Sunday School/Bible Study Lesson (with Transformational Teaching Goals)
- Involving Sunday School Members in Outreach
- It’s All in a Name -- naming and describing adult groups
- Key Competencies needed to be an Effective SS Director
- Learning Styles Test
- Our Generational Palette
- Outreach Ideas for Smaller Churches
- SS Teacher’s Application and Covenant
- Sunday School Class Care Group Leaders Guide
- Sunday School or Small Groups
- The Spiral Evaluator
- The Value of Small Groups
- The Work of the Sunday School Council
Online Resources
- Outreach – great tools to help your group (and church), communicate your message in a positive way to your community.
- Family – to provide a wide variety of tools/resources/encouragement to your adults in their roles in the family. Marriage, parenting, divorce care/prevention, and much, much more will be found on these pages.
Recent Books & Other Resources
- Christian Education Leadership – Making Disciples in the 21st Century Church – Don’t miss this exceptional book, edited by Texas Baptist’s own Dr. Bernie Spooner, and written by 20 well-known Christian leaders such as Jim Denison, Judy Morris, Doug Powell, Royce Rose, Jeter Basden, Dwayne Ulmer, Robby Barrett, and many more, on Christian education, with the emphasis on making disciples as Jesus instructed. This volume addresses spiritual formation for all age groups and gives guidance on how to develop an effective church discipleship ministry.
- Sunday School Done Right - by Alan Taylor. This great six session training resource is a gold-standard training tool for Sunday School Leaders. Includes a DVD with Six 30-minute sessions, a DVD with ten 5 to 7-minute training messages, a 10-minute preview of all six sessions, an Audio CD kit, a participant’s book and a leader’s Guide, and a promotion kit of posters, ads and clip art.
- How to Lead a Great Cell-Group Meeting – so People WANT to Come Back – by Joel Comiskey
- Sunday School that Really Works – A Strategy for Connecting Congregations and Communities – by Steve Parr
- Creative Bible Teaching – by Lawrence Richards & Gary Bredfeldt
- Created to Learn – A Christian Teacher’s Introduction to Educational Psychology – by William R. Yount
- Creating Community – Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture – by Andy Stanley & Bill Willits