CHANCE AFTER CHANCE — Group Leader Guide

Your Group Isn't Afraid of Sin. They're Afraid They've Used Up Their Chances.

No 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.

FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS is the complete group leader guide for CHANCE AFTER CHANCE — built to make leading a music-based journey with your group as simple as pressing play.

Here's How It Works.

Every Monday, a new five-song playlist drops — curated around one theme, sequenced with intention. This guide gives you everything you need to turn that playlist into a complete group experience: full theological foundation, discussion questions that go from surface to soul, experiential activities that make the music tangible, a weekly challenge, and leader guidance for the hard moments.

Pick your format — a single 75-minute session with the full playlist, a deeper session that walks each song one at a time, an activity-led gathering, or your own mix. This guide flexes to your group, not the other way around.

This Week's Theme: CHANCE AFTER CHANCE.

Most of us don't need another reminder to try harder. We need to know God never kept the score we've been keeping.

Somebody in your group feels close to God on good weeks and quietly avoids Him on bad ones. Somebody else has been saying "I'm fine" in the lobby for months. Somebody is waiting to get their life together before they come back. And somebody — maybe several somebodies — is privately sure they've gone back to the same thing one too many times, and this time God is finally done.

This guide moves your group somewhere different. It starts by naming the scorecard most believers keep without realizing it. It walks into the hiding that happens when that scorecard starts looking bad — and the self-punishment people mistake for repentance. It turns everything around with a Father who's been watching the road the whole time, who runs before you can finish your rehearsed apology. It brings your group to the moment they finally stop counting. And it lands on the only response that fits: gratitude from people who know exactly what they deserved and exactly what they got instead.

This isn't a guide about doing better. It's the claim that you were never loved because you were worthy — you were loved because He's good. And He doesn't keep score.

From a ladder you could never climb — to gratitude for every chance you never earned. That's CHANCE AFTER CHANCE.

Who This Is For.

Small group leaders who want a real journey for their group, not another fill-in-the-blank workbook.

Recovery groups and people in hard seasons — this guide includes careful leader guidance for the difference between shame and repentance, and for shame people carry over things that were done to them.

Church teams and volunteers — the helpers who are often the most committed scorekeepers in the building.

Leaders who want to go first — this guide only works if you let it do its work on you before you hand it to anyone else.

If you have a group and a willingness to lead honestly, this guide is for you.

What You're Getting.

FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS: CHANCE AFTER CHANCE — the complete group leader guide, including:

• Front Matter — a full theological unpacking of the theme, a prayer to pray before you lead, and a complete Quick Start Guide with four ready-to-use session formats
• Foundation — the full Story, the complete arc song by song, theological depth, and a personal reflection on why this theme matters
• The Journey — all five songs, each with Scripture, teaching, discussion questions, and a hands-on activity
• Bringing It All Together — leader notes for every song, a full closing discussion, this week's challenge, a simple daily practice rhythm, guidance for hard moments in the room, and a personal word from JDOT
• Reference Materials — complete scripture index, further reading, and what's next for your group
• Four appendixes — a printable song sheet, 30+ discussion questions organized by depth, ten experiential activities plus a full-arc closing activity, and a full scripture reference index with a memory verse card

Playlist Access — Spotify and Apple Music links for the full arc and every individual song.

Everything is written. All you have to do is show up and lead.

This Comes From a Life, Not a Curriculum Department.

On May 13, 2021, JDOT Pine died. Jesus sent him back with five words:

"There's still so much for you to do."

He came back to a calling that made no sense in a body already failing. Primary Progressive Aphasia — a condition that slowly takes language from a man whose entire ministry runs on it.

For a long time, he told that day as his second chance. He's learned it wasn't. It was one more in a long line — chance after chance he never earned, going all the way back to a house where nobody talked about God. And on the days the words come slower, he's still learning what this week promises: he's never once been treated as he deserved.

This guide isn't written from a safe distance. It's written from inside the same arc it's asking your group to walk.

The Investment.

$29

Five days. One arc. A complete leader guide built to go deeper than a borrowed curriculum, deeper than a generic small-group workbook — real theology, real questions, real change.

No subscriptions. No hidden costs. Instant download.

Want something different?

Not every leader needs the full group guide. These might fit better:

• FIVE DAYS with The JDOT Five: PERSONAL — the individual devotional journey through this exact arc, for one person walking it alone. $14.
• THE JDOT FIVE TEXT CIRCLE — a done-for-you, 7-day text-based group experience. The lowest-barrier way to lead a few friends through CHANCE AFTER CHANCE without any prep at all. $9.

Start with ESSENTIALS if you're leading a real group session. Go lighter if you're not.

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Five days. Five songs. One group, led somewhere real.

He doesn't keep score.

Press play. Let it change something.

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