Exponential Groups: Unleashing Your Church's Potential
This book brims with effective strategies for recruiting leaders, connecting members into groups, coaching groups for success, and giving people something to say yes to, even when they have rejected church-wide campaigns previously offered by their churches. Keys to effective, ongoing groups include leadership training, ongoing coaching, appropriate recordkeeping, as well as a sequence of aligned series rather than just a single occasional campaign. This book provides fundamentals that will insure ongoing success—proven principles used effectively in hundreds of churches across North America.
Readers of Exponential Groups will learn how to connect their “unconnected” members into community, recruit the group leaders needed to connect and grow their congregation, coach group leaders for a sustainable group structure that will serve their church for years to come, understand how to maintain current discipleship strategies, and implement new strategies without alienating their members or derailing their current systems.
Top Highlights
“Decentralizing discipleship is the future. Providing great content and effective coaching is the challenge.” (source)
“If your church wants to purchase a church-wide series, but your pastor does not want to do the weekly message, more than likely, this will not work. The power of the purchased church-wide series is the tie to the pastor’s weekend messages. If your pastor does not want to present the series, it won’t be an effective tool for a group launch.” (source)
“When someone asks about childcare, simply reply, ‘You can find five or six different ways to handle childcare on page ___ of your new leader packet. Choose one of those.’ Then, move on! You can find an example of a briefing packet in the appendices.” (source)
“The key to these successful launches was the involvement of the senior pastor. Whether pastors align their sermons with a purchased ‘campaign’ or create their own, their leadership is significant in recruiting and connecting people into groups.” (source)
“You can structure for control or for growth, but you can’t structure for both.’[2] My groups system was structured for control.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Exponential Groups
- Author: White, Allen
- Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781683070344