Small Group Leader Guide: THERE'S MORE

THERE'S MORE — Group Leader Guide

Your Group Has Been Calling a Ceiling "Maturity." This Week, They Find Out It Was Only a Box.

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 THERE'S MORE — 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 walkthrough one stop 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: THERE'S MORE.

Most of us don't need a bigger program. We need a bigger God than the one we've been managing.

Somebody in your group knows every song, shows up every Sunday, serves, gives, and prays the way they were taught, and quietly wonders whether this is it. Somebody else has been told they're free for twenty years and has never once felt it. Somebody prays honestly in private and goes silent in public, and calls that wisdom. And somebody is holding the best parts of their life in reserve, giving God an hour here and a prayer there, because the middle feels safer.

This guide moves your group somewhere different. It starts with the honest admission that they have hit a ceiling, and it names who built it. It opens a door that was never locked from His side, and shows the difference between being told you're free and knowing it. It brings the praise people have whispered in private out into the daylight. It faces fear head-on and shows why the lukewarm middle isn't safe, just slow. And it lands on the discovery the whole week has been walking toward: the more your people have been asking for was never something God hands out. The more is Him.

This isn't a guide about trying harder or praying better. It's built on Ephesians 3:19 and Exodus 33, where Moses turned down the Promised Land if God's presence wouldn't go along.

Not more from Him. More of Him. That's THERE'S MORE.

Who This Is For.

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

Anyone leading long-time churchgoers who know all the right answers and are quietly tired of the loop.

Leaders who feel the ceiling too — this guide was written for leaders who are still reaching for more of Him.

Youth and young adult leaders who need activities that work in a loud room and cost almost nothing.

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

What You're Getting.

FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS: THERE'S MORE — the complete group leader guide, including:

• Front Matter — a full unpacking of what the theme means, a prayer to pray before you lead, and a Quick Start Guide with four ready-to-use session formats
• Foundation — the full Story, the complete arc one stop at a time, real song analysis, theological depth, and a personal reflection on why this theme matters
• The Journey — all five stops in the arc, each with a song, scripture, teaching, discussion questions, and a hands-on activity
• Bringing It All Together — leader notes for every stop in the arc, a full closing discussion, this week's challenge, a simple daily practice rhythm, scenario-based guidance for hard moments in the room, and a personal word from JDOT
• Reference Materials — a memory verse card, a 75-minute quick start, frequently asked questions, and what's next for your group
• Four appendixes — a printable song sheet, discussion questions organized from surface to soul, hands-on experiential activities with options for youth, large groups, and screens, and a full scripture reference index

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.

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

JDOT knows what it is to hit the edge of what he can say about God. And he knows what he has found every time: his words keep shrinking, and God doesn't. Every season he thinks he has reached the limit of what there is to know of Him, and every season he finds out the limit was his.

This guide isn't written from the other side of the ceiling. It's written by someone who keeps finding out the ceiling was never God's.

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. This might fit better:

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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.

Not more from Him. More of Him.

Press play. Let it change something.

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