Five Practices of Fruitful Living Leader Guide

by Robert Schnase

The Five Practices of Fruitful Living Leader Guide will help individuals cultivate the essentials of a personal faith with God in small-group settings. The Guide opens with an orientation session followed by six class sessions, which follow the content of Five Practices of Fruitful Living . This Leader Guide also includes an appendix that provides possibilities for extending sessions, leading a weekend retreat, and additional uses and activity ideas.

Genres: Discipleship, Spirituality, Christianity, Church

112 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2010

About the author

Bishop Robert C. Schnase

Reviews

[bup · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's pretty basic. I'm Methodist, and so at my church they assigned us this book, which was written by a Methodist bishop.

I have no idea if what the Methodists preach is all correct, but I know nobody else knows either, and they don't do anything harmful. To quote Stephen Colbert, "there are worse things to believe in."

Methodists just try to help, and I like that. And it provides structure. I wouldn't do as much to help fellow humans without structure.

Besides, I like walrus blood, which Methodists drink prodigiously in our secret rituals. Oh, I wasn't supposed to let that out, was I?

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not that anything here is wrong. Or that its particularly bad at communicating the point. My main issue with this book is that it feels so forced. Schnase's "Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations" is an amazing book, and this is clearly supposed to compliment that work, applying it to individual spiritual lives. It just comes off as extremely forced and repetitive, especially at the beginning. This book isn't bad. It's just not that good either.

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I began reading this after I had begun Schnase's other book, Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. I enjoyed reading them together since they offered the full range of implementation of the practices. There was some overlap with his first book, but for the most part the text made it clear how to be a more fruitful person, something I hope we all keep working at. We aren't a finished product, so any book that can help us align more closely with God's vision for our lives is helpful.

[Kazue Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a great book to read with people in my church. Through the discussions, I got to know them better and learned a lot about what they think of worship, giving, etc. Lots of things in the book are easy to say, hard to do, though!

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I've read in a long time, outside of the Bible. I used up 2 highlighters reading it, because God spoke to me time after time through that book.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I absolutely loved the model presented throughout this book. Schnase's book inspires, encourages, and challenges personal growth through the transformation of heart and mind.

[Cynthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

another great book by Robert!

A great book for group discussions, and our Sunday School class used it well

[Tracy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gives you a lot to think about as far as improving your Faith life and relationship with God, but I found it very dry at times.

[Carmen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this book has encouraged and blessed me toward becoming a better Christian. It would make an excellent book for study in a small group.