Downloads
Teach using interactive, biblical alternatives to monologue: Alternatives
Routes that Cell Churches Take―Good and Bad―(diagram, MS Word): Routes
Reproductive cells. Mikel Neumann researched this in several continents:
Start and develop house churches in American cities: Rich Hagler (page).
Developing a Cellular Church Body: Form small churches within a larger congregation: Cellular Body
Let Children Participate in an Edifying Way. Let older children evangelize, disciple and lead younger ones. Help children take a more active part in congregational activities. Children Do Serious Ministry
Believers use their God-given spiritual gifts in these different ministries.
To help them discern their gifts, let them compare themselves to Bible characters that demonstrated the different spiritual gifts. Spiritual Gifts―Biblical Models.
Balanced Discipling (Diagram)
- Maintain balance between the different dimensions of discipling
- Visualize how essential dimensions of church life derive from corresponding dynamics within the Holy Trinity
- Help leaders disciple in a way that balances...
loving relationships
participation in ministry
application of the Word.
'One Another' Commands in the New Testament
Practice reciprocal service: loving interaction in the body of believers. The 'one anothers' include: forgive one another, admonish one another, bear one another's burdens, confess faults to one another, and many more.
Balanced Church Body
The greatest weakness of a church is its greatest strength taken to excess. Find how to keep the different church ministries in harmonized balance.
Help Volunteers Workers to Stay on the Job
Avoid the problem that some leaders complain, about, "I cannot depend on volunteer workers; they help for a while, then something else comes up and the work is left undone." Find why volunteers stop working and how to avoid the common causes, which might not be what you are thinking. Copy Keep Volunteer Workers on the Job
Renew Dusty Organizational Structures. Deal with oppressive, out-of-date church bureaucracy. View or copy Rust Removers
Churches,worldwide, that have grown with small groups:
Experienced advisor for effective small groups in American churches: