Following Jesus Where?

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org Question: Is it possible to be a true disciple of Jesus and not be sharing one’s faith? How would the members of your group or church respond to that question? (And how are they answering that question with their lives now?) When...

How Do You Define Ministry?

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org Ephesians 4:12 tells us that the role of the pastor is to equip the saints for ministry. The question is: what ministry? One of the main differences between a cell church and other ministry philosophies is the way that question...

Releasing God’s People

by Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org I am part of a tradition which reserves certain ministry functions for ordained pastors — and it takes a seminary degree and lots of approvals to become ordained. I want to honor our polity, so I abide by these directives...

Overcoming Resistance

by Steve Cordle www.crossroadsumc.org Cell church leaders love to see groups multiply. Very often, members do not. When a group is filled with life and God is at work in building community and changing lives, the members don’t want anything to change. Of course, if...

Health First

by Steve Cordle Just as in the physical body, a main goal of a cell group is multiplication. However, as leaders, we only want healthy cells to multiply; after all, when unhealthy cells multiply we call that cancer. Since we believe that “healthy cells...