One of the many helpful concepts in The Purpose Driven Church is the idea of moving people from the…
- Community to the Crowd
- Crowd to the Congregation
- Congregation to the Committed
- Committed to the Core
The biggest gap in this chain, according to research I have done, is getting worship attenders to stick around.
The best way to get worship attenders to stick around is to get them into small groups.
How then do we get worship attenders into small groups? Here is an observation I made a few years back. (Excerpt from my book, You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less.)
Fasten your seat belt, friend, because this is the most high-powered approach we have. I do not know anything that works better than giving Friday nights to Jesus. Giving Friday nights to Jesus will reach more people in less time than any method I know.
The really unbelievable thing is that giving Friday nights to Jesus is more fun than Disney Land. You wouldn’t think a ministry could be so effective and be so much fun. But isn’t it just like God to make something so enjoyable and so effective at the same time. Sometimes, he makes it easy for us to “Rejoice in the Lord always.”
(Philippians 4:4)
We didn’t dream this ministry up, God lead us into it through his sovereign working out of the circumstances of our lives. And if I had not seen it in action, I may have never been convinced of its effectiveness. Here is how it works. Continued here https://www.smallgroupnetwork.com/how-to-get-90-of-your-visitors-to-join-small-groups/
