You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less,
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You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less has been in print with Group nearly twenty-five years. it is the book that created a carrier for me in speaking and writing. I have logged over two million miles on American Airlines alone doing conferences--most of them on this one book.

The book has been retired from Group, which means the copyright goes back to me. The good news for you in this is that can offer the book to you much less expensively. It is currently on Amazon for $9.99--half of its former retail. Kindle version is also half off--$4.99.

Here is and excerpt:

We can reach our nation for God with an army of small group leaders like you who have a vision for doubling their class every two years or less.

We can reach our nation for Christ.

We can reach America with an army of small group leaders like you who have a vision for doubling their classes every two years or less. We can do it. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We can be obedient to what God told us to do. I want to do that, don’t you?

Think of it. There are approximately 320,000 churches in America. Each one has approximately 75 in attendance and about 7 Sunday school classes. That means there are approximately 24 million people attending church on any given weekend and a little over 2 million Sunday school teachers. Suppose half, or a fourth, or even a tenth of the Sunday school teachers in America committed to doubling their class ten times in the next 20 years. Suppose, like Gideon’s army, we had only 25,000 teachers from various denominations and churches on board. If each one doubled every two years or less, we would reach America in a little past 20 years.

Years                Teachers                Students

                         25,000                   250,000

2                       50,000                   500,000

4                       100,000                 1,000,000

6                       200,000                 2,000,000

8                       400,000                 4,000,000

10                     800,000                 8,000,000

12                     1,600,000              16,000,000

14                     3,200,000              32,000,000

16                     6,400,000              64,000,000

18                     12,800,000           128,000,000

20                     25,600,000           256,000,000

I think God would be pleased if we would do that. But it would be nothing special. We would only be doing what God told us to do. Luke 17:10 reminds us that this is no big deal: “So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” I hate to think what God would say if we didn’t do what he told us to do!

Giving the ministry to people who are using their gifts to grow their groups will get the job done. It is a way to obey the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20). In fact, it is the bread-and-butter strategy for reaching a lost world.

Often, we do big projects in our churches. We have program and musicals and mission trips. We build big buildings, hold huge revivals, and have spectacular Easter celebrations.

It is easy enough when we do these things to lose sight of the importance of the basics. We are mesmerized by watching the home run sail over center field and forget the basics of the routine ground ball. Small group work is the basics of the routine ground ball. Most of what it means to be a church happens best in small groups. Teaching, caring, sharing, reaching, loving, admonishing and helping happens best in, through, and around small groups. All these other things are good, but we should never lose our focus on the basics.

We may do all kinds of supplemental things to help us to grow, but it is the work of the small group leader that is foundational to long term growth. Consistently and quietly, growing, reaching, teaching, assimilating, fellowshipping and doing what God tells us to do—this is the bread and butter of our ongoing strategy.

Perhaps the goal of reaching America in 20 years is a little hard for you to wrap your brain around. Two hundred and sixty million is a big number. Personalize it to your church or denomination. Southern Baptists have about 4 million people attending Sunday school each week. If half of them would double every two years or less Southern Baptists alone would reach America in 14 years.

Think about your own church. Suppose you have 100 attending right now. How many people would you reach if each group doubled every two years or less? Fill in the following chart to find out.

                                         Example                Your Church

Current attendance      100        

2 Years                            200        

4 Years                            400        

6 Years                            800        

8 Years                            1600      

10 Years                          3200      

The correct answer is in excess of three thousand. One hundred to three thousand in ten years. But, that is not the exciting part. The exciting part is the second ten years. Even if only half the groups in your Sunday school were successful, you would still experience phenomenal growth. Go ahead, play with the math if you are given to that kind of thing.

Doubling your class every two years is a worthy goal. It will result in phenomenal growth. It will result in obedience to the Great Commission.