Fully Known, Fully Healed

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org  In Luke 8:43-47, a woman who had struggled for years with a chronic bleeding condition that embarrassed her and made her ceremonially unclean. Her condition separated her from life in the community.  One day Jesus was passing...

Clarify Expectations through a Covenant

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org  Accountability and submission are essential to healthy discipleship and leadership, so we build it into our group leader development process. One of the ways we do this is through our Group Leader Training portion of our...

Healthy Submission

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org In the very early days of our cell ministry, the leader of our third-ever cell group quit in anger. He said, “This is communist!” He did not like the fact that we had a format for our cell meetings; he wanted to do his own thing....

What works?

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org  “It won’t work here.” That’s what I have heard when I talked about cell-based ministry philosophy with people in the United States, Canada and Europe. There are many fast-growing, very large cell-based churches in Latin America,...

More than a meeting

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org  When I say the phrase “cell church” to church leaders, I am never sure what comes to their minds. People hold a variety of ideas about cell ministry, some of which are realistic and others of which are not. Some pastors think...