We need to decide on a Small Groups strategy.
Essentially, you have two options for Small Groups: Activate and Sticky Church. I am very familiar with Activate, but not with Sticky Chuch. So, let’s read.
Overview
Larry Osborne supposedly grew his church through word of mouth without marketing, primarily through sermon-based small groups. This book is about sermon-based small groups. It is divided into the following way:
- The Sticky Church Advantage
- Sticky Church
- Who Are These Guys
- How I Learned about the Importance and Power of Stickiness
- Why Stickier Churches are Healthier Churches
- How Small Groups Change Everything
- Velcroed for Growth
- How Small Groups Change Everything
- Still More Ways that Small Groups Change Everything
- Making the Message Memorable: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Made a Much Better Preacher
- Making the Message Accessible: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Us a Much Better Church
- Sermon-Based Small Groups
- Why Some Groups Jell and Some Don’t
- Flies on the Wall: What Happens When a Sermon-Based Small Group Meets
- Overcoming the Time Crunch
- Determining Your Primary Purpose
- Entry Points and Escape Routes
- Why Dividing Groups is a Dumb Idea
- Finding and Developing Leaders
- Training Leaders
- Why Cho’s Model Didn’t Work in Your Church
- Before You Start: Five Key Questions
- Appendix
- Writing Great Questions
- Sample Sermon Note Sheet and Study Questions
- Sample Growth Group Covenant
- End-of-the-Quarter Evaluation Form
- Leader Training Topics
- Leader Responsibilities
- Host Responsibilities
- A List of New Testament “One Anothers”
- Study Guide: Follow-up Questions for Each Chapter
If I were to blog on each chapter, this series would be nineteen posts long before I even discussed the appendix material. So I will break it up into four posts (the three overarching sections and the appendix material). Anytime I write for a book, I suggest you please purchse the book and pay due homage to the originators of the material. My blog posts include bullet-point information which will help me discuss the system with my team so we can decide whether to be an Activate Church or Sticky Church.