Good Assimilation Habits
Simple assimilation habits help believers identify and connect with Christ and the church. A leader/teacher can help move members toward good habits.
Tag: small groups
Accountability and Relationships in Discipleship
For a Sunday School class or small group to move toward discipleship, accountability in relationships is needed with honesty among leaders and members.
DiscipleShift 1 Is Coming to Kentucky
DiscipleShift 1 is coming to Eastside Community Church, in Richmond, Kentucky, on January 17-18, 2018! You are invited. This will be a two-day experience of learning and living out Jesus’ method of disciple-making through interaction with a facilitation team and small group. You will receive tips and tools to equip you…
Small Groups: Delivery Tool Rather Than Destination
I believe in Sunday School classes and small groups. They can be great tools for assisting the church in discipling and shepherding the sheep God has entrusted to us. Sometimes, however, our methods for reaching, caring, and discipling are poor. Teachers and group leaders can be lazy, apathetic, or untrained.…
Six Mega Shifts, Part 1
You may have read this Barna study, but I think it is worth looking at again as we try to reverse the tide of the declining effectiveness of our churches on the culture. These six shifts should wake us up and cause us to think, plan, and lead in a…
Ten Growth Principles of Healthy Churches, Part 3
In a previous blog, I listed 10 so let’s continue to examine two more with number three and four. 3. Healthy Churches have an effective assimilation process. They not only reach people but they move people to places of service. They do this very quickly and intentionally. It is expected…
Five Ways to Make Disciples, Part 2
This is the second of our five part series on making disciples. The most overlooked opportunity to enhance disciple making in a local church is through the Sunday School! For this to happen Sunday School teachers and leaders must see their role as not just “teaching the Bible” but “making…
Church Vitality Components
Audrey Barrick writing for the Christian Post reported an interesting new study by the United Methodist Church on what makes some churches healthy. Here are the key findings in that study. Churches with a high number of small groups, effective lay leadership, faithful pastors, and both traditional and contemporary services…
Discipleship Retro
Have you noticed how many things have gone retro… clothes, cars, furniture, appliances. Vinyl records are making a comeback. I wish I had kept my leisure suits because I am sure they will return soon! Maybe even my bell bottom pants I wore in college. Some are nostalgic and want…
The VELCRO Principle, Part 3
This series of blogs will help you keep the people you reach and help you discern if your church is more like Teflon or Velcro? We have a twofold challenge…getting new people to attend and getting people to stick after they join and not slide off. Without new people coming…
Order Copies of Discipling and Caring
Two encounters are critical. First, the leader encounters God in His Word and is changed. Second, the leader guides the group to have a life-changing encounter.
In John 13:34-35, three times Jesus said, “Love one another.” Your group is the ideal place to practice and launch the kind of love for one another that shows the world that we are His disciples.
Accountability and Relationships in Discipleship
For a Sunday School class or small group to move toward discipleship, accountability in relationships is needed with honesty among leaders and members.
DiscipleShift 1 Is Coming to Kentucky
DiscipleShift 1 is coming to Eastside Community Church, in Richmond, Kentucky, on January 17-18, 2018! You are invited. This will be a two-day experience of learning and living out Jesus’ method of disciple-making through interaction with a facilitation team and small group. You will receive tips and tools to equip you…
Small Groups: Delivery Tool Rather Than Destination
I believe in Sunday School classes and small groups. They can be great tools for assisting the church in discipling and shepherding the sheep God has entrusted to us. Sometimes, however, our methods for reaching, caring, and discipling are poor. Teachers and group leaders can be lazy, apathetic, or untrained.…
Six Mega Shifts, Part 1
You may have read this Barna study, but I think it is worth looking at again as we try to reverse the tide of the declining effectiveness of our churches on the culture. These six shifts should wake us up and cause us to think, plan, and lead in a…
Ten Growth Principles of Healthy Churches, Part 3
In a previous blog, I listed 10 so let’s continue to examine two more with number three and four. 3. Healthy Churches have an effective assimilation process. They not only reach people but they move people to places of service. They do this very quickly and intentionally. It is expected…
Five Ways to Make Disciples, Part 2
This is the second of our five part series on making disciples. The most overlooked opportunity to enhance disciple making in a local church is through the Sunday School! For this to happen Sunday School teachers and leaders must see their role as not just “teaching the Bible” but “making…
Church Vitality Components
Audrey Barrick writing for the Christian Post reported an interesting new study by the United Methodist Church on what makes some churches healthy. Here are the key findings in that study. Churches with a high number of small groups, effective lay leadership, faithful pastors, and both traditional and contemporary services…
Discipleship Retro
Have you noticed how many things have gone retro… clothes, cars, furniture, appliances. Vinyl records are making a comeback. I wish I had kept my leisure suits because I am sure they will return soon! Maybe even my bell bottom pants I wore in college. Some are nostalgic and want…
The VELCRO Principle, Part 3
This series of blogs will help you keep the people you reach and help you discern if your church is more like Teflon or Velcro? We have a twofold challenge…getting new people to attend and getting people to stick after they join and not slide off. Without new people coming…
Order Copies of Discipling and Caring
Two encounters are critical. First, the leader encounters God in His Word and is changed. Second, the leader guides the group to have a life-changing encounter.In John 13:34-35, three times Jesus said, “Love one another.” Your group is the ideal place to practice and launch the kind of love for one another that shows the world that we are His disciples.
