Activate Quotes

“Activate Principle Allow casual friendships to develop without feeling a need to force intimacy.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“3. No One Space Is More Important than the Others We need all four to grow and to be spiritually healthy. Consider which is worse: Someone locked away in a cabin with only one person to talk to (even if that person is an intimate relationship), or someone who is always around a crowd of people but has no friends or family to share intimately with? Both are equally unhealthy,”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“They may ultimately form intimate relationships with people they’ve met in a group, but that will happen outside of the system.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“Small groups are not the place for your people to form intimate, meaningful relationships with one another. Instead, they are a place to form new, basic friendships.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“Conventional Wisdom: Small groups are a place where intimate relationships are formed. Reality: Small groups are a place where new friendships are formed. Have you ever had to deal with the”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“The key to building healthy, thriving small groups is to create a system that targets your Big Number. Ask yourself, “How can I get as many of my Crowd into small groups as possible?” Your Congregation is included in that effort, by default, but does not limit it.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“But what if we were to tell you that the most powerful potential for your small groups lies in their ability to move people from the Crowd to the Congregation? What if we were to tell you that your small groups system should be designed first and foremost for those who are not yet involved in them—those who are not yet assimilated? If your focus is primarily on serving your Congregation with groups and not on connecting the people who make up your Crowd, your momentum will turn inward and your growth will stop.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“Imagine if each one of us made a commitment to concentrate only on those things that strengthen the Body of Christ individually and as a whole, refusing to get bogged down with distractions that quell our effectiveness.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups

“God put the stress-and-release principle in place by establishing six days for work followed by a day for rest. The same principle is crucial for small groups systems.”
― Nelson Searcy, Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups