5 Tiny Language Tweaks that Make a Very Big Difference
Sometimes the smallest adjustments can make the biggest difference. When our Lead Team debriefed the success of Transformed, our fall campaign, one of the observations was that I functioned as the “Transformed Nazi.” The person who said this was noting that I was carefully watching all of the language (sermon references, announcements, bulletin promotions, pre-service…
Read MoreGood Faith: Must Read from David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Spent some time this week with Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme, a new book from David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. An encore for Kinnaman and Lyons, their 2007 collaboration unChristian was an eyeopening book that “presented the North American church with an ‘outsider’s view’ of itself and challenged individual Christian and church…
Read MoreCraig Groeschel on the Importance of Fresh Thinking
“To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.” Craig Groeschel
Read MoreHow Often Do I Need to Offer Opportunities to Join a Group?
COVID-19 Note: This is one of my most frequently asked questions. And this article, written in 2016 still provides a very accurate answer. However, I took some time this morning to revise and amend my four points to reflect my current thinking (circa COVID-19). I get questions…a lot of questions. If I’ve been asked this…
Read More5 Subtle Differences between Thriving and Struggling Small Group Ministries
It turns out that whether you’re on the Apollo 13 heading for the moon or Amelia Earhart circumnavigating the globe…you only have to be slightly off course to miss your objective. I’ve found that there is often only a slight difference between the priorities and objectives of churches with thriving and struggling small group ministries.…
Read MoreThe End of Me: Another Great Study from Kyle Idleman and City on a Hill
I had an opportunity to preview the newest Kyle Idleman study this week. Idleman is a teaching pastor at Southeast Christian Church, one of the largest churches in the country with nearly 21,000 in attendance every weekend. He is also an author and presenter on several projects with City on a Hill Productions. Idleman’s latest book, The…
Read MoreAndy Stanley on the Connection Between Design and Results
“Your ministry is perfectly designed to produce the results you are currently experiencing.” Andy Stanley
Read More5 Things I Wish I Could Say to Your Senior Pastor
Are there conversations you hate to have? How about conversations you love to have? I have to say, one of my favorite conversations is with senior pastors about the role they play in building a thriving small group ministry. I’m having it more and more often…because a growing number of senior pastors realize that life-change…
Read MoreWin 2 FREE Registrations to re:group: North Point’s Groups Conference
We have a winner! The contest is closed. Join Andy Stanley and the North Point Groups team for re:group, one of the very best small groups conferences I’ve ever attended! May 2-3, 2016 at Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia. You’ll be inspired and equipped with the nuts and bolts of building a small group culture for…
Read MoreDilbert on Character (and who you are when no one’s looking)
Sometimes you just need to laugh. I had a good one when I saw this one! You can see the rest of Dilbert references right here.
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