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Sticky Church
In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne makes the case that closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. He offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation ...more
Paperback, 201 pages
Published
October 1st 2008
by Zondervan
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Larry Osborne neemt de tientallen jaren ervaring van North Coast Church met gemeentegroei en celgroepen als vertrekpunt voor Sticky Church. Kernboodschap in het eerste deel van het boek is om niet alleen de voordeur van de kerk op te zetten (evangelisatie-acties, diensten voor zoekers, etc.), maar ook om de achterdeur dicht te houden. Netto groei van de gemeente is anders niet mogelijk. Om die achterdeur dicht te houden en dus een sticky church te zijn, is het belangrijk binding tussen mensen to...more
I met Larry Osborne many years ago when I was looking for a pastorate in California. He and his church had purchased a strip mall and were slowly taking it over as their church grew. I thought it was a great idea at the time. I'm pretty sure that they are not still located in that mall, but was good to see that Pastor Osborne was thinking outside the box way back then.
Sticky Church is about small groups that are meant to facilitate deep and lasting friendships among the individual chur...more
Sticky Church is about small groups that are meant to facilitate deep and lasting friendships among the individual chur...more
This book promotes a multi-year small group system, based around sermons – very different from how we operate at EastLake. Below is a quick summary of the application points, but I after reading, I am even more convicted that to enable our mission, “To help people find and follow Jesus Christ aka Dispense Hope”, we are running the right type of small group program.
Learnings:
• The North Coast Church mission: “Everything we do is aimed at helping the Christians we alrea...more
Learnings:
• The North Coast Church mission: “Everything we do is aimed at helping the Christians we alrea...more
Quick read. Osbourne writes with humor and a conversational tone. This is not a biblically-centered work. Scripture was rarely cited and was not the basis for the work. Basically, Osborne pastors a big, California mega-church that used to not be very big. This book is his reasoning as to how they were able to sustain growth, namely through sermon-based small groups.
Osborne's book has some helpful tips and ideas, but it wasn't worth the $18.99 sticker price. It was fun to read this bo...more
Osborne's book has some helpful tips and ideas, but it wasn't worth the $18.99 sticker price. It was fun to read this bo...more
I love this book. Sticky Church talks about how North Coast Church gets people to stick in their church by developing lasting close relationships through sermon-based small groups. They work hard to close the "back door" by attracting 80% of their church attenders to small groups. I also went to the conference...loved it!
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The basic premise of this book is that sermon-based, short-term sessions for small groups are THE most effective way to retain people in your church. There is a lot of truth to this. Activate by Nelson Searcy addresses many of the same things that Larry Osborne writes about. This book spends a lot more time discussing the philosophy and vision of groups as opposed the practical implementation than Searcy's book does. Chapter 18, "Why Cho's Model Didn't Work in Your Church" may be worth...more
Another practical book on pastoral ministry. Larry deals with developing sermon based small groups in this book. The idea here is "keeping the back door closed" so as to not just increase numbers, but to keep those who are a part of the congregation. He desires to see a healthy congregation not simply get mor information, but rather learn to apply the truth they have already received.
If you are part of a church that has small group or is considering small groups I HIGHLY recommend this book! I think the model which is proposes makes perfect sense and is well explained. The author does a good job of promoting the reality that the model can't just be copy/pasted into another context - it needs to be adapted. One of the best chapters is toward the end when he explains why the Korean small group model won't work well in the US.
Great stuff!
Great stuff!
Small groups should be based on material connected, at least tangential, to Sunday sermons. This alleviates the common group problem of requiring extra preparation: people already hear the sermon and don't need to spend extra time reading and thinking. This, among other insights, is why Sticky Church is the best book on small groups I've read thus far.
The thing I loved about the book was it was anchored in experience. Not pie-in-the-sky dream, but decades of experience. It made me re-think some things about how we operate our small groups at Harvest HS. A great read for anyone desiring a vibrant small group ministry.
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I started this a few weeks back and thought it was a good read. easy language, really honest. I got too busy to pick it back up ... interesting concepts ... some already being applied at my church, but in very early stages. what i've read so far makes sense.
This book is a creative look at what it takes to keep people who come to church in the church. It presented some great ideas to apply to Hope and made me really look at the structure of our church to see if we were "sticky". Definitely worth the read.
This is a quick and helpful read on sermon-based small groups/Bible studies. Even pastors against "small groups" might take a page from Osborne via parish ministry and the nature of church culture.
A must-read for our church leadership team. Thought-provoking, challenging, and a great discussion starter, even if you don't come to the same conclusions as the author.
I really like how the author speaks clearly and doesn't use Christian cliches. Refreshing and honest.
I think this is a great book to help church leaders think through the role of community in their congregations. You have to be careful though that church doesn't become all about "us" - while fellowship is a HUGE part, and part of what closes the back door, if we're nothing more than a social club, that's not much good either. Highly recommended esp for those involved in small group ministry.
Well-written book on closing the back door for church growth/health... which isn't really about closing the back door nearly as much as it is creating a sermon-based small group system. While the book does a great job of showing how this would work, I feel like I got the bait & switch.
Some quick thoughts:
- I'd really like to hear Larry Osborne speak... the book feels like it was run through an editorial filter.
- The chapter on why Cho's model doesn't work at your church is BR...more
Some quick thoughts:
- I'd really like to hear Larry Osborne speak... the book feels like it was run through an editorial filter.
- The chapter on why Cho's model doesn't work at your church is BR...more
Loved it! Some favorite quotes:
"serve our people so well that they'll want to bring their friends, without needing to be asked to do so"
The sticky church paradigm is not primarily about church growth. It's about church health. It's not about hoarding people or refusing to release them to ministry and mission. It's simply about keeping them connected to the church long enough to fulfill the second half of the Great Commission: "Teaching them to obey all things I have...more
"serve our people so well that they'll want to bring their friends, without needing to be asked to do so"
The sticky church paradigm is not primarily about church growth. It's about church health. It's not about hoarding people or refusing to release them to ministry and mission. It's simply about keeping them connected to the church long enough to fulfill the second half of the Great Commission: "Teaching them to obey all things I have...more
So far an excellent read on Sermon-based small groups.
Better than Sticky Teams. Good insights, though not everything applies.
Disagreed with some of his points, but found it helpful to think through them nonetheless.
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