Small Group Based Churches

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Small Group Based Churches

• Everything revolves around them
• Leadership emphasize spiritual gifts instead
  institutional needs
• Pastor equips laity minister
• Mission Takes precedence over coordination
• Staff does most administration

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Two Kinds of Churches

• Program Based
• Paid Staff 1-00
• Expensive
• Pastor Ministers
• Pastor Preaches
• Institutional
• Skills must change

• Small Group Based
• Paid Staff 1-500
• Inexpensive
• Laity Minister
• Pastor Equips
• People Centered
• Skills are constant

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Two Kinds of Churches

• Program Based
• Large and Cold
• Assimilation Person
• Evangelism Person
• Top Down Ministry
• Specialist/Generalist
• Disappearing

• Small Group Based
• Caring
• Small Groups
• Small Groups
• Sideways Ministry
• Everyone Ministers
• Emerging Model

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The Basics
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The Four Basics
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Four Key Principles

• Start slow and small
• First group must be strong cell group members,
  not cell group leaders
• Ten is a sane span of care
• Each leader must have a passion for multiplication

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The Basics

• Everything in the church revolves around small
  groups
• Pastor spends more time on leadership than the
  sermon
• A way of thinking and living rather than a
  program
• Ordinary people doing extraordinary ministry

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Requires Four Levels of Lay Ministers
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Expanded Version
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The Types of Gatherings