Are Your Groups Competing with Each Other?
Listen to this Blog Post instead on the Healthy Groups Podcast. Some churches practice a simple church model. They offer just a few options to their congregations. These are churches like North Coast Church, Vista, CA led by Larry Osborne or Mariners Church led by...
Gearing Up for the Fall 2022 Small Group Boom
Click here to LISTEN to this blog post. Fall 2022 promises to be the largest small group launch season you’ve ever seen. Now that COVID is behind you for the most part and the weather is warming up, people are gone. Don’t believe me? Go price an airline ticket right...
Surviving Cultural Changes in Ministry
Listen to this Blog Post Here. In the last two years, you’ve experienced about a decade’s worth of cultural change. Organizations that were breaking quickly broke. Some startups and skunk works quickly accelerated. Just to give you an example. You probably thought the...
Repurpose Your Content to Make More Disciples
Click here to LISTEN to this blog post. Why let your sermons go dormant when they could do so much more? Pastors have lots of sermons. Even as an Associate Pastor over the years, I have lots of sermons, Bible studies, and class notes. What are you doing with those...
The Post-Pandemic Small Group Boom 2022
If you'd rather listen to this blog post, click here for the Healthy Groups Podcast. A year ago I wrote about the Post-Pandemic Small Group Boom. I wrote about it a year too early. In this article, I’m going to build a case for the pattern leading up to the fall 2022...
You Are NOT Your Numbers
Pastor, you are not your numbers. Your worth and your value come from who you are in Christ. You are called. You are chosen. You are valued and loved. Your numbers are your numbers. Sometimes they will be up. Sometimes they will be down. Your worth isn't based on the...
How Big of an Easter Group Launch in 2022?
Click here to listen to this blog post instead. Easter 2022 is an interesting moment. With most of the country easing their COVID restrictions, will people feel free to worship in-person for Easter? Or have two years worth of people watching online sunk in deep? And,...
Episode 14: Michel Hendricks
https://exponentialgroups.podbean.com/e/michel-hendricks-on-half-brained-christianity-and-the-role-of-neuroscience-in-making-disciples/ This Podcast is available on:Apple Podcasts – Google Play – Spotify – Amazon Music/Audible – Pandora -Podbean – Tune In –...
Do School Administrators Hate Small Groups?
Back in the good old days, the school year started after Labor Day and ended before Memorial Day as God intended. Lately, however, school districts have gotten creative with school calendars. Some schools take a week or two off every six weeks now – all year ‘round....
3 Reasons Coaching Fails
If you would rather LISTEN to this blog post, click here. You’ve probably got a story about how you’ve tried coaching group leaders and how it failed. I actually have a few of those. But, let me assure you that coaching can and does work. You need coaches. You must...
Is Delegating Demoralizing?
Clearly you have more to do than you could or should be doing on your own. Whether you lead a team or work solo, as your small groups ministry grows, there is more to do than is humanly possible. You have to multiply yourself for sure. You have to pass things on to...
Putting COVID Behind Us
The last two years have been unprecedented, unbelievable, devastating, incredible. (Pretend this is the Amplified version of this blog. You pick the word!) Now, as the last holdouts for Coronavirus mandates, Oregon, Washington, and others, are planning to reduce their...
