Sermon-based small groups

Sermon-based groups are all the rage these days. I see it as the #2 trend in church life in this decade. (#1 is the multi-site church, which will transform church in the next 20 years as much as franchises have changed the business world in the last 20 years.)

The leading spokesman for sermon-based groups is Larry Osborne. He says, “By far the most powerful tool for keeping our back door shut and making the church sticky has been our commitment to sermon-based small groups.[1]

If you would like to read more about why Larry Osborne is such a fan of sermon-based groups, check out this article.

If you would like to experiment with sermon-based groups, but don’t have anyone locally that can write lessons for your groups, I’d love to work with you. I write lessons for a living and feel it is my #1 calling. I think I have written more lessons than any human, living or dead. I have close to 200 series on Amazon.

I also have a massive electronic library of searchable books. If Max Lucado ever mentioned a particular passage, I will find it and provide it for your teachers. (By the way, with custom lessons I can stay away from, or lean into any authors you choose.)

This is an idea that lends itself to experimentation. Here is what I suggest. Pick one Sunday in the next month and ask your groups to try sermon-based groups for that one Sunday. I will write one lesson for that Sunday. There will be no charge for this lesson.

If your people like this approach, and you would like to use me as your ongoing lesson writer, the cost will be $200 per lesson with a 20% discount if you prepay one quarter at a time. (For a large church, this is likely less than you are paying for literature now.)

Contact me at josh@joshhunt.com