School is starting to wind down, vacation plans are being made, but what about our small group? Summer time is tricky for a lot of groups, because if you forge ahead with the normal schedule, you will likely have shrinking attendance. Most of our groups at Cross Point take the summer off from meeting every
Yesterday was baptism day at all of our Cross Point campuses. I have been in full-time ministry for 20 years, and I am still amazed at the power of seeing someone take their first public step of faith through the simple act of baptism. I felt tears come to my eyes every time that person
I tweeted this earlier this week: “I tell my kids they are silly to worry about being left out of something, then it happens to me & I am consumed with it.”. The tweet was inspired by an emotion that may seem silly on the surface, but strikes at something that never goes away –
One of my favorite Ted talks is about how to start a movement by Derek Sivers. He uses a video from a music festival in Europe as an example of how a movement is built in about 3 minutes. One of the things he says is that “the first follower turns a lone nut into
Like everyone on Monday, I watched in horror as the tragic events in Boston unfolded on my computer screen and tv. I will never fully comprehend why there are sick people in the world who desire to inflict death and injury on innocent people that they do not even know. My heart is hurting right
Every leader thinks that they have a great small group, and some of them wonder why people won’t come back after they visit for the first time. There are a million reasons why some people try out a group and it doesn’t work, but here are 5 possible reasons that they may be fleeing for
I am currently taking a group of guys at Cross Point through a spiritual leadership mentoring process. For 8 months, we will be studying a variety of church leadership books, Bible study methods and theology. It’s kind of like turbo seminary. In our group meeting this week, we had a lively discussion around a theology
We kicked off a new series yesterday at Cross Point called, The 5 Lies That We Believe. I am excited about this series, because what stops most people from doing amazing things for God are the lies that Satan tells us. In John 8:44, Jesus says: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you
I normally use this space to share a thought or a nugget of wisdom that I have picked up along the way, but today I would love to have a discussion. If your small group team has not thought through how to handle the question of homosexuality, then it will have to soon. The Supreme
I think that all of us would say that the main purpose for small groups in a church is to make disciples. If we are not making disciples, then we might as well call them social clubs. The question then becomes – what is a disciple? For the sake of this discussion, I am going
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