I have written before about how I believe the number 1 key to small groups working in a church is the public support of the senior pastor. Our Pastor, Pete Wilson, recently talked about our groups strategy at Cross Point with Ed Stetzer on his show, The Exchange. This is Church – Pete Wilson on
No matter what kind of a study that a small group does – message notes, dvd driven, book study, Bible study – every discussion should have these 3 components: knowledge, understanding and action. A group can get out of balance when they do not have all 3. There are a lot of groups that spend most
Yesterday was an amazing day at Cross Point as we celebrated the opening of our Nashville campus’ new building in downtown Nashville. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cross Point, the Nashville campus is our broadcast campus and has been leasing space from another church for the last 6 years. It was an
Last week, I helped facilitate a Leadership Community at Leadership Network in Dallas, and one of the exercises that we had the teams do was called Opposites. We had each church list 5 of the most common ways they do currently ministry and then what would be the ministry potential of doing the complete opposite.
In the book, Switch, Chip and Dan Heath introduce the concept of looking for positive deviants in problem solving. When we take on a system that is broken, we have a tendency to focus solely on the problems and try to fix them. The end result is that the issues are usually so big and
In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts for the month of February: 5 Characteristics Of A Great Coach What Is A Small Group? 5 Reasons Groups Are Not Working At Your Church Small Groups For The Rest Of Us pt 3 Leadership Pipelines
John Maxwell has a famous saying, “Teamwork makes the Dream work”. I saw a great example of that coming to life this past Saturday at a work day for our new Nashville campus building. We are repurposing half of a 140,000 square foot warehouse that was formerly the home to an electrical company. On Saturday,
We kicked off a new series yesterday at Cross Point called I Am Second. We are piggybacking off of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that IAmSecond.com is putting in advertising into the Nashville area. If you live in this area, then you have probably already seen some of the billboards that are going up
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