Goals that grow faith

by | Jun 4, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

  by Steve Cordle   Joel’s encouragement to set goals wisely is so important.  As Rick Waren said, a goal is a dream with a deadline. I have found that the best goals are: 1) From God –  Spending time in prayer to heare from God makes the goal something...

Lessons from a church planting movement

by | May 20, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

  by Steve Cordle   In areas of Africa and China, there are church planting movements which are rapidly spreading the Gospel and multiplying churches (generally house churches). A missionary from southern Africa recently said that the method used to spark a chain...

Equipping Track as Discipleship

by | May 14, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

  by Steve Cordle   What makes for a good equipping track? One of the characteristics of an effective equipping track is that it will combine disicpleship training with leadersihp training. Specifically, there will be little difference between growing as a follower of...

Remember the Goal

by | May 7, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

  by Steve Cordle   There are many ministries to attend to in a healthy cell-based ministry: the equipping track, coaching leaders, writing material, outreach, etc. It can be easy to get unbalanced or preoccupied with minor issues unless we keep our goal in mind: a...

Open vs. closed groups

by | Apr 30, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

  by Steve Cordle Recently a new member to our church responded to our open, outreach-oriented group philosophy by asking “Didn’t Jesus have a closed group?” Our new friend had been part of a thriving church in another state that had used the closed...