Here’s the 8th and last installment in the Church Planting with Small Groups posts. This one’s longer, since I’m putting the wrap on the series. If you’ve made it this far, congrats! Feel free to add your own suggestions re: small groups as well–I’d love to hear from you.
_See also Intro, Part 1, Part 2, [...]
This Planting w/ Small Groups “series” has kinda faltered, due mostly to a preaching class that drained my time and energy like a Christian vampire. The class is over (and I’m officially a graduate now, ha!), so my plan is to wrap up this series in short order. Look for Part 8 in the next [...]
Here’s the next installment in the Church Planting w/ Small Groups series.
________See also Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4, & Part 5_______
Multiply leaders and small groups regularly.
If a weakness of small groups is their tendency to become inward-focused, the contrasting strength is the potential to give participants numerous opportunities for discipleship [...]
Founding members should be humble, teachable, others-focused people who love the gospel.
________See also Intro, Part 1 & Part 3_________
Here’s the first of 7 “best practices” that can contribute to building a healthy church plant via small groups. I noticed that because the “Part 1″ post was “Background,” the 7 best practices won’t correspond to the series numbers… Oops. But here we go.
1. Cast a unifying [...]
