This post is all about this question, do small groups work? Before I attempt to answer that question though I think it’s important that I define what I mean by ‘work’. Like anything with ministry it’s a really good idea to have a clearly defined purpose for why you have small groups and what you [...]
LifeWay Research conducted a survey among people age 18 to 34 that discovered a major factor causing young adults to leave the church is the church’s inability to minister to them in their transition stage. Jim Johnston of LifeWay Christian Resources identifies four needs among young adults:
1. Relationship
“It just so happens that this generation’s biggest [...]
What makes an idea stick? Chip Heath and Dan Heath recently wrote a book entitled, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. During their research, they took at close look at hundreds of ideas and came up with six principles that they said they saw over and over again that made ideas [...]