Why Their Model Won’t Fit You

by Steve Cordle Over the years I have both received and given. I have often learned and drawn from other cell-based churches. I have also shared with a number of pastors and leaders about cell ministry. We have generally said “yes’ any time someone asks to...

Will It Work Here?

by Steve Cordle Early one morning more than 10 years ago I sat in our church’s prayer room asking “But can it work here?” I had just read Joel Comiskey’s book Home Cell Group Explosion. I was captivated as I read about churches in Latin America...

Missionary DNA

By Steve Cordle What happens if you cut the leg off of a starfish? You get two starfish, because the severed leg grows into a new complete creature. What happens if you cut the leg off of an elephant? You have a three-legged elephant. Each cell of the starfish...

It’s Got to Bleed Out of You

by Steve Cordle Churches do not transition from program-based to cell-based by accident. It is always the result of an intentional, Spirit-led, values-driven set of responses. The only person who can lead this change effectively is the senior pastor. Notice, I...

Transition is the hardest

by Steve Cordle Years ago my wife and I attended Lamaze classes designed to prepare us for “natural” (no drugs) childbirth. Each stage of labor has a name; the most difficult and painful  of which is called “transition.” “Transition” is also the most difficult stage...