5 Key Insights When Designing Your Small Group System

Small group systems work best when they’re designed with the environment in mind.  Off-the-rack is fine if you’re choosing a shirt or a pair of pants.  But if you really want a small group system that does what you want it to do…you’ll need to customize it to fit your church’s culture (or ideally, the culture you’re developing).

How do you do that?  How do you develop a custom design?  You start with these design shaping insights:

• You wouldn’t want to just guesstimate how many unconnected people you’re talking about. You’d want to know pretty accurately How Many People You Really Need to Connect
• You wouldn’t really expect everyone to respond to the same next steps. Instead, you’d Build Next Steps for Every Participant and First Steps for Their Friends
• You wouldn’t spend forever searching for a perfect, problem-free solution because you’d realize that There Is No Problem Free System
• You’d keep the 5 Questions Every Small Group Pastor Needs to Be Asking in mind as you began designing.
• You’d actually develop a path in advance because, like the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, “If you don’t know where you’re going…any road will get you there.”