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Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups
Church leaders want to know how to make small groups work for their church communities, yet a quick look around shows that while small groups are all the rage, much of the time they create more problems than they solve. Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas, founding pastors of The Journey Church in the heart of New York City, suggest that this failure is due to widely held bel...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
June 2nd 2008
by Gospel Light
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With a title like that, you better be prepared to deliver… and Nelson Searcy & Kerrick Thomas (pastors at The Journey in Manhattan) actually manage to live up to the implied promise. As someone who’s been interested in small group life for a long time in my various ministry roles (youth pastor, church planter, senior pastor), I’ve read a lot of small group stuff: Serendipity, Willow Creek, Cloud & Townsend, Lifeway, etc. I’ve been trained multiple times… and still, much of what is in Activate is...more
This book's main premise is that the most effective system for small groups in the church is to have short-term, semester-based, closed groups. They suggest offering three semesters a year with a strategic plan to follow each month of the semesters.
I really liked a lot of what they had to say. VVCC is currently doing some of what is described, but it would be a hard sell to do a complete shift to completely following what is outlined.
I really liked a lot of what they had to say. VVCC is currently doing some of what is described, but it would be a hard sell to do a complete shift to completely following what is outlined.
Church leaders of The Journey church in New York advocate their model of small group ministry, using curriculum/topics as an attraction to grow their group ministry.
Nuts and bolts of small group ministry
Reading with a grain of salt.
This book should be called: "Activate: An Entirely Ordinary Approach to Small Groups"
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