If our churches are going to be healthy, then we have got to have healthy leaders.
Steve Rowe
"Get your small groups here! Sign up for small groups here! Be a leader for small groups here!" Sometimes I think we are so good at marketing our need for leaders and our desire for people to join small groups that we forget why we have small groups to begin with. We take on an initiative to connect people to small groups, and then we breathe a sigh of relief that X amount of people are now connected. ...
Most American small-group ministries have not done as well as they have in places like Korea. Why?
Michael C. Mack
Small-group systems in countries like Korea have exploded in evangelistic growth. Most American small-group ministries have not done so well. Why? An article in Ministries Today (May/June 1993) speculates on five reasons.
1. They are methodologically designed to fail. In Korea, the church is built around small groups, says David Yonggi Cho, pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest church in ...
Principles that will help small groups thrive in your church.
Jeannette S. Buller
1. Prayer - Prayer is foundational to the life and growth of the church. Result - There is a growing understanding of the critical part prayer plays in accessing spiritual power and in hearing God. Intercessors are mobilized and prayer is a vital component of every church meeting.
2. Integration - Disciple-making small groups are the basic building blocks of the church.Result - There is a system of ...
People naturally and automatically seek out relationships.
Dan Lentz
Interestingly enough, I do not know of one church that does not have small groups in one form or another. Many of them do not have a declared small group ministry, but people will get into small groups regardless of whether or not small groups is an official ministry. People naturally and automatically seek out relationships. We do it automatically. It has been said that if someone who is new to the ...
Through small groups and other mid-size ministries, everyone can experience more in-depth community.
Dan Lentz
I have directed the small group ministry in a church WITH small groups that later began a transition to a church OF small groups. And most recently, I am involved at a church that probably more closely resembles the church IS small groups. After experiencing all these models, I have concluded that God can and does use all these paradigms.
Recently, I attended a small group leader training workshop ...
We focus on 5 core values: upward, inward, outward, forward, and onward.
Michael C. Mack
Foothills Christian Church is a church of small groups. What does that mean? We do ministry primarily in and through small groups rather than through a variety of programs, one of which is small groups.
Let's say someone comes to me and says, "I want to start a prison ministry," or "I want to reach out to the homeless," or "I want to start a men's basketball team." My response in every case would be ...
Cell churches are churches based on a clustering of believers, rather than the assembly of all its members.
Dan Lentz
If a church IS small groups then it is not built around the assembly of ALL its members but the clustering of believers to become "Basic Christian Communities" which do the work of ministry from small groups that meet in homes. These small groups then cluster for area Congregation activities, and assemble regionally for "Celebration" times. While it has weekly worship events, the focus of the church ...
How do you start moving more people into biblical community through small groups? There are many ways, but two in particular highlight the decisions that small group directors and church leaders face. One way is to start with some hand-picked folks in one or a few pilot group (sometimes called Turbo-groups) and focus on Biblical community, outreach, leadership development, and group health. Live life ...
Small group ministry thrives when you the end result is kept in view.
Joel Comiskey
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, tells people to "live life with the end in view." Covey counsels a person to imagine what others would say at his or her funeral and then to live a life that would fulfill those compliments.
Successful small group ministry is like running a marathon and not a 50-yard dash. It thrives when the end is kept in view.
For many people, he workplace is their largest sphere of influence, and their greatest opportunity for evangelism.
John Crosby
Imagine hundreds of small groups initiated by your church popping up all over your city. Not in homes but in an area that God wants for Himself—the workplace!
"I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace". Dr. Billy Graham
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"Workplace ministry will be one of the core future innovations in church ministry." George Barna, Boiling Point, ...
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