Small Groups for the Rest of Us
How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Published: 2015
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Publisher's Description
Most churches in America struggle to have a significant percentage of their adult attendance in small groups. According to recent research done by Lifeway Research, only “33 percent of churchgoers attend classes or groups for adults (such as Sunday school, Bible study, small groups, or Adult Bible Fellowships) four or more times in a typical month. Fourteen percent attend two or three times a month.” Life transformation happens best within the context of community, so if a church is going to be intentional about discipleship they have to develop on-ramps to small groups that reach people on the fringes and beyond. If we continue to offer small groups to the normal church attenders, a majority of the people who show up to church are never reached. Pastors, church staff and small group leaders are trying to figure out how to make small groups work in their church and they don’t know how. Small Groups For The Rest Of Us gives them practical, proven strategies on moving people from the fringes into biblically based communities.
Endorsements (2)
“Man! I wish I’d written this book!” And “Man! I wish I’d had this book thirty years ago!” Small Groups For The Rest of Us is a book not just for “the rest of us,” but for all of us. At Saddleback, we say that a healthy small group is one that seeks to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. We equip them to develop health by balancing the five biblical purposes. This book, in their hands, will help make their group healthier. It doesn’t matter what system of groups you are trying to work, or whether you have a system at all. This book will challenge how you think, who you reach, and the power of biblical community to change lives. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll get out of your comfortable chair to reach people nobody else is reaching . . . people Jesus loves. People just like you and me. People who are way different than you and me. People who desperately need life-giving relationships, just like you and me.”
“You won’t just read this; instead, you’ll feel as if you’re shadowing Chris as he navigates every strategic decision required for building transformational groups in a church. Loaded with ground-level wisdom that is refreshingly vulnerable, brutally honest, intensely practical, and readily transferable to your group ministry.”
Dr. Bill Donahue
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