I had the opportunity a few years ago to hear Mark Miller from Chick-fil-A speak at a leadership event in Dallas, Texas. Mark was sharing about how they have built a strong leadership culture at Chick-fil-A. He said one of the keys to sustained leadership development is the capacity of the leader. Humans have
Having solid systems in place is a struggle for a lot of small group point people. There is a tendency to think because we are dealing with community, it should be strictly organic. Relationships happen organically, so the ministry that organizes those should happen organically as well. The problem is, without good systems and planning
The beginning of the year is a perfect time to launch new small groups at a church. January is normally a growth season for churches, as people return after making spiritual growth resolutions. Whether you decide to launch a campaign with all of your groups studying the same content for a few weeks, or just
I’m not much of a handyman. When something breaks at our house, my first instinct is to call in a professional who knows what he’s doing. What I have discovered (several hundreds of dollars in service bills later) is that a lot of the time, the only thing stopping me from doing the repair job
Podcast Episode #1 On this first episode, we discuss five questions that pastors are talking about, plus a fast five on pop culture. Here are the questions that we tackle: Fast Five: Who you got in the Republican presidential race? Do the Broncos have a chance to come out of the AFC? Will the Titans
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way from the beginning: to the normal church outsider, small groups are weird. Those of us who are tasked with convincing people in our churches that joining a small group is something they should do have an uphill battle. Here are just a few of the
Although I deeply believe in the concept of small groups, I think we are missing large groups of people with our current systems. I talk about a few of those groups in this short video: Small Groups for the Rest of Us by Chris Surratt
A few months ago, I wrote about a new curriculum tool that Lifeway Christian Resources was launching called – SmallGroup.com. SmallGroup.com is an online library of over 1300 Bible studies that you can completely customize for your church’s context and needs. All you have to do is plug in your pastor’s topic or main scripture,
I am so excited that my book, Small Groups For The Rest Of Us, finally releases today! Although I wrote it over the last year and a half, it was actually a several year process as we experimented and refined the ideas for helping everyone find community. My prayer is that the concepts in the
One of the initial decisions you have to make for your groups system is what constitutes an official small group at your church. Most churches technically already have small groups. You probably have a guest experience group that greets people at the doors on Sundays or serves coffee. You may have a parking group that
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