{"title":"I KNOW SOMEBODY","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"group-leader-guide-i-know-somebody","title":"Group Leader Guide: I KNOW SOMEBODY","description":"\u003ch2\u003eI KNOW SOMEBODY — Group Leader Guide\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYour Group Doesn't Need More Answers. They Need to Know Somebody.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo complicated curriculum to build from scratch. No hours of prep before you can lead with confidence. Just five songs, five days, and everything you need to walk your group somewhere real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS is the complete group leader guide for I KNOW SOMEBODY — built to make leading a music-based journey with your group as simple as pressing play.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHere's How It Works.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery Monday, a new five-song playlist drops — curated around one theme, sequenced with intention. 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Somebody else has sat across from a friend who just got devastating news and had no idea what to say — so they said nothing. And almost everyone in the room has quietly believed the same thing: that you need answers, or your own life fully together, before you're allowed to point anyone to Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis guide moves your group somewhere different. It starts at the bottom — the moment the tears come before the words, and the discovery that falling apart in front of God was never a failure of faith. It moves through what happens when you stop rehearsing the right prayer and simply call His name. It reaches a moment most people quietly struggle with — when He shows up and the hard thing is still there — and finds an honest praise that doesn't require pretending. It walks into the last hiding place most people keep, even from God, and finds out what it means to be fully known and still wanted. 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