Sticky Church Part 1

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
  1. Sticky Church
  2. Who Are These Guys
  3. How I Learned about the Importance and Power of Stickiness
  4. Why Stickier Churches are Healthier Churches
• How Small Groups Change Everything
  5. Velcroed for Growth
  6. How Small Groups Change Everything
  7. Still More Ways that Small Groups Change Everything
  8. Making the Message Memorable: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Made a Much Better Preacher
  9. Making the Message Accessible: How Sermon-Based Small Groups Made Us a Much Better Church
• Sermon-Based Small Groups
  10. Why Some Groups Jell and Some Don’t
  11. Flies on the Wall: What Happens When a Sermon-Based Small Group Meets
  12. Overcoming the Time Crunch
  13. Determining Your Primary Purpose
  14. Entry Points and Escape Routes
  15. Why Dividing Groups is a Dumb Idea
  16. Finding and Developing Leaders
  17. Training Leaders
  18. Why Cho’s Model Didn’t Work in Your Church
  19. 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.