Weekly Cell Groups

By Joel Comiskey, Making Disciples in the 21st Century Church People are busy. They have work, family, personal goals, and many other responsibilities. These responsibilities are important and necessary. Cell churches ask believers to commit to two main activities:...

The importance of Gathering Cell Statistics

By Joel Comiskey, Passion and Persistence Statistics don’t motivate. Numbers, in fact, can have a “numbing” effect. Well-meaning pastors proclaim idealistic cell group goals which are divorced from reality. They do this to motivatepeople to believe in the impossible,...

Discipleship Details

By Joel Comiskey, Myths and Truths of the Cell-Based Church Because a school in Texas didn’t have a functioning sprinkler system, 200 people perished when a fire burned down the buildings. The principal began to rebuild the school after the initial shock had passed....

Train Everyone to Make Disciples

By Joel Comiskey, Making Disciples in the 21st Century Church Not long ago, I had to explain to my daughters what a typewriter looked like. They had never seen one. My children were born in the computer age, in which we talk about living a web lifestyle. According to...

Making Disciples in the Small Group

By Joel Comiskey, Making Disciples in the 21st Century Church Paul says, “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your...