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The journal is an excellent tool to use with the book. My husband, who does not like to read, loves this book & journal.

Leaders guide which includes DVD and book and leaders manual. It can be done with just the movie but to dig deeper, the participants should read the book. The journal, I would say, is optional. I found it too much to have 4 or 5 entries daily. My suggestion and what our group did was book and movie.

I am leading a small group with this book. We are not using the "Follower's journal," I read through it and didn't find it particularly great/helpful. The group members do not have the book either and it is going fine. My co-leader and I read passages and go over 90% of the book verbally and added our own questions and applicable bible verses to expand. Some of the questions are very personal and some group members aren't comfortable talking about them. I'd suggest telling members to bring their own journal. When we ask a question, we have the group journal a bit, and if they want to share they can. But if they don't want to share, at least they can go through the questions by themselves! There are so many questions in the book already that the follower's journal isn't necessary. It is a great book, I encourage everyone to have a copy, but it also isn't necessary to have a successful small-group when they don't have it.

I have read the book only but it would make for excellent small group material if your group is open and honest with each other. You can use any loose leaf notebook as a journal. I would highly suggest each group member have a copy of the book.

I would definatly recommend everyone reading this book in your small group. It will promote growth and help facilitate more dscussion.

Although they recommend you getting the journal, you do not need it to have a good small group. There are not many questions in the material but we did small groups without the journal and they went great. We just expanded on the questions given. I would recommend reading the book. It is quite good and gets you to ponder the question, am I just a fan. If we are honest with ourselves, sometimes we are.

I bought my products individually, I wish I had bought the DVD Kit it is all you will need for the small group study and you will not regret it it is awesome and powerful it will change your life forever! love it and your group will too.

I think the journal is a must for young adults up to senior adults. I chose not to use them for my students because we are challenging them in other areas too so I thought the journal would be a little much on them. It is a great way to continue the study every day and will enhance your small group meetings by using the journal.

The DVD kit provides you with the DVD (has six sessions) and a Leader's guide with questions to discuss before and after the DVD. It also includes a copy of the journal. You do not need the journal if your group decides not to use it. It is for use during the week. However, I would recommend it as Kyle does as well. You do not need to buy the book. I recently bought a copy for myself because I was enjoying the study so much. So really all you need at bare minimum is the DVD kit. (PS - my group really enjoyed this)